Quotes About Intuition

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

What truly is logic? Who decides reason? [...] It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logic or reason can be found.

Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way that my mathematical ideas did. So I took them seriously.

There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.

El resultado es que con frecuencia parecemos obligados a escoger entre el utilitarismo y el intuicionismo.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Doubt is thus the space between reality and the application of an idea. It ought to be given over to the weighing of experience, intuition, creativity, ethics, common sense, reason and, of course, knowledge, in balanced consideration of what is to be done. The longer this stage lasts the more we take advantage of our intelligence.

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; 4 the latter, of Inference.

They could smell changes in each other's mood.

Words, words, just stupid words. Listen to your body. Listen to your heart.

I wonder if the truth comes off people like an aura or an odor. You don't have to know them to know them, ya know?

Even the most skillful deceit is wasted on a man's mother.

I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.

You know how in our brains, behind all the recent flashy developments that gave us stuff like emotions and aesthetics and cosmic awareness, there's this lizard brain. It's what makes the heart beat and what stays alert to odd noises and sudden movements in the dark while we sleep. Don't wonder where the dinosaurs went, there's a bit of one inside each of us.

Look beyond what you see with your eyes and peer into the day with your heart.

It is by logic that we prove. It is by intuition that we discover," said the mathematician Henri Poincare.l

We imagine love so easily." "Yes. That's the simple part.

The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy.

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to sound like it does.

We yield our wills and our imaginations to "experts," both visible and invisible, and pretend that only the experts have god-given powers of perception. We forget the legitimacy of our own knowing.

Like I said, sometimes a gut feeling is the most important thing; sometimes you have to trust fate.

You can work as hard as you like, and plan as carefully as you want, but there are moments when it's just about a hunch, about trusting your instincts, or about fate.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

Roosevelt's humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure.