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Quotes About Intuition

Historical faith causes the Lord to be present, because it is an intuition of the Lord from the quality of His Divinity. That faith does not save, until man lives the life of faith, which is charity, for he then wills and does the things which he believes, and to will and to do is of the love, and love conjoins him whom faith causes to be present.
~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Michael Powell knows what I am going to say even before I say it — maybe even before I have thought it – and that is very rare. You are lucky if you meet someone like that once in your life.
~ Emeric Pressburger
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
~ Emil M. Cioran
I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge)
~ Emily Barr
Instinct is untaught ability.
~ Bain
Great artists are beings who, to quote Napoleon, can cut off at will the connection which Nature has put between the senses and thought.
~ balzac honore de vii
Woman understands all things through love; what she does not understand she feels; what she does not feel she sees; when she neither sees, nor feels, nor understands, this angel of earth divines to protect you, and hides her protection beneath the grace of love.
~ balzac honore de xiv
From the moment that your suspicions are aroused, you ought to be like a man mounted on a tricky horse, who always watches the ears of the beast, in fear of being thrown from the saddle.
~ balzac honore de xxv
At that moment I had a thrilling sharp intuition. I knew it as if I held it in my hands: In the gloom of death that surrounded the two of us, we were just at the point of approaching and negotiating a gentle curve. If we bypassed it, we would split off into different directions. In that case, we would forever remain just friends.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Me es difícil resistirme a estas muestras de buenos modales. Tengo la impresión de que estas personas tan bien educadas jamás podrían hacerle nada malo a nadie. Yendo un poco más lejos, parece que sepan discernir a quién sí pueden hacérselo.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
My body knows not to respond to fake love. I guess maybe that's what it means to have been brought up well. Mom
~ Banana Yoshimoto
We're constantly making choices. With the breaths we take every day, with the expression in our eyes, with the daily actions we do over and over, we decide as though by instinct.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you're all equally sure that you're at the beginning of something good. That's how it is when you meet people you're going to be with for a long time.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart once said he could not define pornography, but he knew it when he saw it. Reverence is a little like that. It is difficult to define, but you know it when you feel it.
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
And when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left, your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way; walk in it." —Isaiah 30:21
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
~ Barbara Corcoran
Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
~ Barbara Corcoran
I swear, the cats did know me. They came without pause
~ Barbara Delinsky
Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
~ Barbara Delinsky
She could never understand that when you were with the right people, you didn't need words in order to know what they felt.
~ Barbara Delinsky
You've got to stop listening to that tiny hysterical voice inside and start listening to the messages your body's been sending for weeks now. The hysterical voice is exactly that. Hysterical. It's highly emotional. It doesn't know the facts, and it's preventing you from seeing and believing them.
~ Barbara Delinsky
magic procedure. And instinct is usually represented by an animal - a dog, a horse, an elephant for instance. In this case,
~ Barbara Hannah
And then she got a bad, bad feeling because she realized she had been wrong. You can fool a person. You can fool a dog. You can fool a cat or a horse or a teacher or a friend. But you cannot ever fool a heart.
~ Barbara O'Connor
I think a good many things that common folk call miracles are merely a matter of an observant person's good plain sense
~ barbara quick