Quotes About Intuition

But a girl always knows.

Das sind Leute, die immer Erfolg haben, ohne daß man weiß, wie er zustande kommt. Die Leute arbeiten mit Einbildungskraft anstatt mit nackten Tatsachen.«

Intuitions are not to be ignored, they represent data processed to fast for the conscious mind to comprehend

Oh I'm sure you're right, Auntie said. Probably she's just as you say. But she looks to me like a very clever girl, and adaptable; you can see that from the shape of her ears.

Watch for the thing that will show itself to you because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.

Tuve la súbita intuición de que nada en la vida es tan simple como imaginamos.

A dog likes people who pat him on the head. That's because his thinking isn't complicated by knowledge and education

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

I felt before I thought, as all humans do.

Genialiteit is een vorm van domheid. Het enige wat je ervoor moet doen is zonder na te denken grote keuzes maken.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flashes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The dive vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links.

You wouldn't have any idea what's going on, would you? BAYARD, shaking his head: I was walking down the street. LEBEAU: Me too. Something told me—Don't go outside today. So I went out. Weeks go by and I don't open my door. Today I go out. And I had no reason, I wasn't even going anywhere. Looks left and right to the others. To Bayard: They get picked up the same way?

Our greatest sufferings do not lie in the present, as intuitive representations or immediate feeling, but rather in reason, as abstract concepts, tormenting thoughts.

Moreover, she is intellectually short-sighted, for although her intuitive understanding quickly perceives what is near to her, on the other hand her circle of vision is limited and does not embrace anything that is remote; hence everything that is absent or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness.

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one.

Alla intuitionb is intellectual. For without the understanding it would never come to intuition, to perceptionc, apprehensiond of objects; rather, it would remain as mere sensation,e which at most could have significance with regard to the will as pain or comfort, but would otherwise be a change of meaningless states and

Viceversa ogni causalità, perciò ogni materia, e quindi l'intera realtà esiste soltanto per l'intelletto, mediante l'intelletto, nell'intelletto. La prima, più semplice, sempre presente manifestazione dell'intelletto è l'intuizione del mondo reale: questa non è altro se non conoscenza della causa dall'effetto: perciò ogni intuizione è intellettuale

and when we decide by instinct

Human beings have an ability to simply recognize the right thing to do sometimes. Judgment, Klein points out, is rarely a calculated weighing of all options, which we are not good at anyway, but instead an unconscious form of pattern recognition.

In the absence of algorithms and evidence about what to do, you learn in medicine to make decisions by feel.

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

There are times in life when logic and reason and probability must be recognized, but then ignored.

So he definitely hadn't been angry, and I definitely had believed he was. This meant something inside of me — something I had relied on my entire life — was essentially faulty. My compass, my inner homing pigeon, my deeper instincts. Since mine clearly could not be trusted, I would have to rely on his.

Don't think. Believe. Trust your heart, not your brain. Don't think. Feel. Believe.