Quotes About Intuition

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings." —LORD CHESTERFIELD

You guess. You're always a-guessing. And because you know how to guess, they pays you for guessing. But guessing ain't knowing. You don't know; — nor yet don't I.

You have seen more of him here and in Italy than most girls see of their future husbands." "So I have, — but I have seen no one belonging to him. Don't you understand what I mean? I feel all at sea about him. I am sure he does not mean any harm." "Certainly he does not

One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality.

I leaned over, took her hands and brought them together, closing her coat. "You know damn well what I think.

chest—I could hear him denigrating Obama at the top of his lungs, which seemed to make Mary only slightly less uncomfortable than it made me. A few weeks before the trip, she said, when she was in the shower, seething about something he'd done, the words I chose him for you came up on the holy computer screen in her mind. What

I guess I'll just … play it by ear." She could have bitten her tongue off.

The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.

The mind has many watchdogs; sometimes they bark unnecessarily, but a wise man never ignores their warning.

Nicole's intuition told her not to follow the fireflies, but she said nothing.

That is why Jean could tap the knowledge of her unborn son.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact. ~ Sherlock Holmes

When a man writes on a wall, his instinct leads him to write above the level of his own eyes.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.

From a drop of water," said the writer, "a logical man could understand oceans and waterfalls without having ever seen or heard of them.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.

We give you best, Holmes. I believe you are the devil himself.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

No, no: I never guess. It is a shocking habit—destructive to the logical faculty.

Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?

I have seen too much not to know that the impressions of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

Science of Deduction

His conclusions were as infallible as so many propositions of Euclid. So startling would his results appear to the uninitiated that until they learned the processes by which he had arrived at them they might well consider him as a necromancer.

There are instincts which are deeper than reason. — Arthur Conan Doyle, from "The Nightmare Room," Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle . (Delphi Classics; 6 edition May 13, 2011)