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Quotes About Intuition

Her tongue tasted the air and she smiled from fathomless eyes.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Sometimes you know before you know.
~ Elizabeth Berg
There was some nerve in his feeling he did not want touched: he protected it without knowing where it was.
~ Elizabeth Bowen
The soul sees what the eye cannot
~ Elizabeth Brundage
Ivy bent down to look at the screen. "No! Yes! No! Yes!" she read, then laughed a little sadly. "It sounds like me when I first met Tristan." "It's Tristan," Beth typed quickly. Ivy stopped smiling. Tristan pressed on, and Beth typed as fast as he thought: "Be careful, Ivy. It's dangerous, Ivy. Don't stay alone. Love you. Tristan.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
I have had work or ideas come through me from a source that I honestly cannot identify. What is that thing? And how are we to relate to it in a way that will not make us lose our minds, but, in fact, might actually keep us sane?
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Understanding is a creative act in a dimension we do not see.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
Every now and then he [Sol] made these cryptic remarks, gazing into the fire or at Stella with his bright amused eyes. She did not understand him, and he had no words to explain what he knew. It was only by the tranquillity with which he carried the burden of things as they are that he could reveal his innate knowledge that the hands that had put it upon him were the hands of love.
~ Elizabeth Goudge
I wasn't worried, but I thought I should know something that didn't seem to be there anymore. It was gone, whatever it was, fleeting and slippery like a fish darting through silky weeds. From
~ Elizabeth Haynes
When I first met him I didn't want to look into his eyes because I knew I would be able to tell how he thought about me and that scared me
~ Elizabeth Heller
Love is neither a conditional business nor an ever-fixed mark arrangement. People always know somewhere inside them if they are not loved. No gestures, talk, conciliation, pronouncements can prevail over that deep instinctual knowledge.
~ Elizabeth Jane Howard
Right and wrong, I learned that day, could not really be taught after all, only felt.
~ Elizabeth Joy Arnold
But I know a lie when I hear one.
~ Elizabeth Scott
Architecture doesn't come from theory. You don't think your way through a building.
~ Arthur Erickson
Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.
~ Arthur Erickson
De rede biedt ons vele mogelijkheden tegelijk. De intuïtie kiest daaruit feilloos de beste. Wanneer je dit onthoudt kun je je niet meer vergissen en zul je altijd de juiste keuze maken.
~ Arthur Japin
Redeneren wordt je dood. Het is overleven op intuitie of anders niet. Geloof me, bij een leven als dit moet je niet te lang stilstaan.
~ Arthur Japin
Zij steunden elkaar in het idee dat vrouwen zichzelf tekort doen door op hun gevoel te vertrouwen en dat ze pas werkelijk vrij zullen zijn wanneer de intuïtie voor eens en altijd door het intellect wordt overwonnen. Hierover rebbelden ze met een passie die hun gelijk ongewild bewees.
~ Arthur Japin
I say one must be a seer, make oneself a seer. The poet makes himself a seer by an immense, long, deliberate derangement of all the senses.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I say that one must be a visionary - that one must make oneself a VISIONARY.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
I think that, as with marriage, you just know when it's time to have kids.
~ Ashley Judd
We look for medicine to be an orderly field of knowledge and procedure. But it is not. It is an imperfect science, an enterprise of constantly changing knowledge, uncertain information, fallible individuals, and at the same time lives on the line. There is science in what we do, yes, but also habit, intuition, and sometimes plain old guessing. The gap between what we know and what we aim for persists. And this gap complicates everything we do.
~ Atul Gawande
My experience has been that wives know their husbands better than husbands know themselves.
~ Aubrey Malphurs
A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.
~ August Bier