Quotes About Intuition

A word in season is most precious.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

You've a pretty good nerve," said Ratchett. "Will twenty thousand dollars tempt you?" It will not." If you're holding out for more, you won't get it. I know what a thing's worth to me." I, also M. Ratchett." What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal - I do not like your face, M. Ratchett," he said.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

Unless you are good at guessing, it is not much use being a detective.

Les femmes," generalized Poirot. "They are marvellous! They invent haphazard—and by miracle they are right. Not that it is that, really. Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing that they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together—and they call the result intuition.

Nobody knows what another person is thinking. They may imagine they do, but they are nearly always wrong.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details ... and they call the result intuition.

The two words expressed volumes.

You should always pay attention to your instincts.

A woman would know all right about her own husband.

I think each one of us in his secret heart fancies himself as Sherlock Holmes.

you have the beautiful and unsuspicious mind. Years do not change that in you! You perceive a fact and mention the solution of it in the same breath without noticing that you are doing so!

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge—my experience—that tells me that something about that letter is wrong—

What made Lady Angkatell dangerous, he thought, was the fact that those intuitive, wild guesses of hers might be often right. With a careless (seemingly careless?) word she built up a picture - and if parts of the picture was right, wouldn't you, in spite of yourself, believe in the other half of the picture?...

In fact there is only your own instinct? Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my knowledge-my experience-that tells me that something about that letter is wrong-

Miss Marple,' said Sir Henry, "you frighten me. I hope you will never wish to remove me. Your plans would be too good.

We never know the whole man, though sometimes, in quick flashes, we know the true man.

But what is often called an intuition is really an impression based on logical deduction or experience.

But if I am right," thought Poirot, "and after all, it is natural to me to be right

But then, how do you know?' 'Because I am Hercule Poirot! I do not need to be told.