Top 100 Quotes About Intuition
#1. To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.
H.L. Mencken
#2. With the wild nature as ally and teacher we see not through two eyes but through the many eyes of intuition. With intuition we are like the starry night, we gaze at the world through a thousand eyes. The wild woman is fluent in the language of dreams, images, passion, and poetry.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#3. The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday's ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.
Charles Nicolle
#4. In moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
John Le Carre
#5. Your intuition will most likely push you gently toward taking some appropriate risks and trying new things.
Shakti Gawain
#7. In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life.
Abdellatif Laabi
#8. It ain't happened yet
And that's what intuition is
Kanye West
#9. Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.
Echo Bodine
#11. Even good excuses, really good ones, don't help very much.
Explanations, on the other hand, are both scarce and useful.
And accurate forecasts and insightful intuition are priceless.
Seth Godin
#12. This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.
Dean Koontz
#13. Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason.
Russell Kirk
#14. Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.
Swami Dhyan Giten
#15. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
Agatha Christie
#16. It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover.
Henri Poincare
#17. I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.
Robin S. Sharma
#18. I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.
John F. Kennedy
#19. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#20. You move gropingly, relying on your faith and act by your intuition
Sunday Adelaja
#21. Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith.
Michael Bierut
#22. Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
Andre Weil
#23. I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
Elif Safak
#24. People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
Ray Bradbury
#26. I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
Bear Grylls
#27. The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes
#28. All inspiration comes from a higher power. The body is a shell. The creative spot is from God - You hear voices, everybody does. When you get older, you refer to it as intuition.
Eddie Murphy
#29. I always had the intuition, even as a little child, that I was called for a big project.
Shakira
#30. Coup d'Oeil Concept A French expression which loosely translated means the "strike of the eye" or the "vision behind the eye." The closest English concept would be that of intuition. Intuition is defined as "perceptive insight" or "the power to discern the true nature of a situation.
Charles "Sid" Heal
#31. Intuition is something all of us have been given.
Echo Bodine
#32. That's just where I must part company with you, Inspector," said the Vicar with a gentle smile. "I'm rather a voracious reader of mystery stories, and it's always struck me that the detective in fiction is inclined to underrate the value of intuition.
John Bude
#33. Never give up. I do believe it is harder for female directors. I have been lucky to receive support from the Sundance Institute for my first film. I'm eternally grateful for their support. I think you need to be surrounded artistically and follow your intuition - always follow your intuition.
Sophie Barthes
#34. Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try to kill them.
Emily Thorne
#35. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
Isaac Asimov
#36. The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.
Santosh Kalwar
#37. When I pray, I'm just talking to what some people might call our higher selves: God, myself, my intuition, my heart. Whatever that is, that's where I go.
Alanis Morissette
#38. Instinct is an animal faculty, independent of instruction and reasoning, but far inferior to intuition, which is a grace unique to humanity.
Dean Koontz
#39. If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that's an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it's always about, 'What's my heart's sole desire?'
James Redfield
#40. The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#41. Intuition in chess can be defined as the first move that comes to mind when you see a position.
Viswanathan Anand
#42. The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him ... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#43. The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#44. You have more brain cells than there are grains of sand on your favorite beach, and you have cleverness, dexterity, and creativity - all of which powerfully combine when you are at risk - if you listen to your intuition
Gavin De Becker
#45. Both the art of intuition and the science of analytics have the role to play in making wise decisions.
Pearl Zhu
#46. The thing about the intuition is that there's always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It's always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it.
Echo Bodine
#47. Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#48. Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious
C. G. Jung
#49. Merz art strives for immediate expression by shortening the path from intuition to visual manifestation of the artwork ... they will receive my new work als they always have when something new presents itself: with indignation and screams of scorn.
Kurt Schwitters
#50. Every man has a feminine side, and every woman a masculine side. It is important to use discipline with intuition, and to use intuition with objectivity.
Paulo Coelho
#51. She wonders if she has something other people don't. Intuition or hope
she wouldn't know what to call it.
Alice Hoffman
#52. We were created with more than five senses. Apart from the basic five, we also have the gut and the third eye. The gut being the seat of all feeling, and the third eye being the seat of intuition (foresight).
Suzy Kassem
#53. Intuition is what you know before you think.
John Assaraf
#54. Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,
Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.
Rumi
#55. Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you - work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you.
Shakti Gawain
#56. Intuition is not a special source of ineffable insight: it is the womb of articulated understanding.
Michael Dummett
#57. The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.
Dan Stevens
#58. A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#59. Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges
Paulo Coelho
#61. The most powerful forces in the universe are infinite. Love, imagination, intuition, stillness. Then why should we define our soul?
Matthew Donnelly
#62. Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life.
Paulo Coelho
#63. The intuition of a deafened and isolated soldier often turns out to be nearer the truth than judgements delivered by staff officers as they study the map.
Vasily Grossman
#64. If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.
Oprah Winfrey
#65. Intuition often sees where science is blind.
Marty Rubin
#66. When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
#68. [The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.
Hart Crane
#69. Intuition eludes the grasp of linear thinking, with its exclusive emphasis on cause and effect that are close in time and space. The result is that most of our intuitions don't make sense - that is, they can't be explained in terms of linear logic. Very
Peter M. Senge
#71. To be whole, we need to embrace both
intuition and logic.
Leta B.
#72. Forget that blind ambition, and learn to trust your intuition.
Jimmy Buffett
#73. Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.
Shakti Gawain
#74. Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to a certain degree. It requires a bit of intuition as to how things can fit together elegantly.
Vienna Teng
#75. If the intuition-mongering were abandoned, would that be the end of philosophy? It would be the end of a certain style of philosophy - a style that has cut philosophy off, not only from the humanities but from every other branch of inquiry and culture.
Philip Kitcher
#76. Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
Steve Jobs
#77. People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.
Eric Schmidt
#78. When you are mindful of your intuition, you gain a mind full of inspiration.
Donald L. Hicks
#79. Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge.
Rudolf Steiner
#80. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.
Stacy Peralta
#81. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong.
Tamara Mellon
#82. You have intuition, too. The Society says it doesn't really exist, but it does.
Ally Condie
#83. Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!
Katy Perry
#84. I look at things and think about them,' Folly replied. 'And use my intuition, of course, and deduction and induction, as well as any historical or theoretical models that seem to apply.
Jim Butcher
#85. Just before a game, I try to keep a clear mind so that I can focus better. I'm the kind of person who plays fast and relies a lot on intuition, so being at peace with myself is vital. Saying my daily prayers helps me achieve this heightened state of mind.
Viswanathan Anand
#86. Trust your intuition. You don't need to explain or justify your feelings to anyone, just trust your own inner guidance, it knows best.
Unknown
#87. Sometimes, rather than just think about it, we need to feel about it. The intellect is limited or finite, while intuition connects to a sea of unlimited consciousness that expands far beyond time and space (as we know it).
T.F. Hodge
#88. Intuition, if you are fashion designer is really the key to everything. I just really have a feeling it's the right moment in time to create a new business model. Obviously I have facts and figures that could back that up. It isn't a gamble; it's a calculated risk.
Monita Rajpal
#89. To fully accept someone or something, means that you understand yourself enough to trust your own judgement and intuition, with this understanding full acceptance is inevitable and the next step possible.
Nityananda Das
#90. The key is to silence the mind long enough to tune into the intuition of the heart.
Steven Redhead
#91. When you feel depressed and you wanta go here, wanta go there, remember Mind Essence; the world, like dreams, will never come true. Operate on Intuition, Rest and Be Happy. It's all in your head what happens so you might as well think happiness.
Jack Kerouac
#92. What 'Short Term 12' did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people - I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
Brie Larson
#93. Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
Felix Klein
#95. Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.
Crane Wilbur
#96. I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
V.S. Naipaul
#97. You need to be honest and always see new opportunities coming. So I call it intuition, innovation, execution - these are my working principles.
Roustam Tariko
#98. if a theorem is geometrically obvious why prove it? This was exactly the attitude taken in the eighteenth century. The result, in the nineteenth century, was chaos and confusion: for intuition, unsupported by logic, habitually assumes that everything is much nicer behaved than it really is. Good
Ian Stewart
#99. Don't discount intuition. It holds more wisdom than technology can ever afford
Jack C. Monroe
#100. Intuition means to follow the silent whispers of the inner in a basic "yes" to life.
Swami Dhyan Giten
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