Quotes About Intuition

Yeah, Hoyt," Legerski said, changing the subject, "I've heard of you before." His voice was cautious and a little weary. Cody recognized the intonation and had heard it many times from older law enforcement types.

Avoiding hard work required discipline and a complete awareness of his surroundings, as well as an intuitive sense of when to be in the wrong place when extra time or effort was demanded. Like golf or fly-fishing, it was a lifelong pursuit that he knew he might never perfect but he could certainly continue to improve.

some decisions are better left to your unconscious mind to untangle.

a confidence that comes out," Martin explained. "I think it's something the audience smells.

Let's begin with the first ability. To start, we must remember that we've been spoiled by the intuitive and drop-dead-simple user experience of many consumer-facing technologies, like Twitter and the iPhone. These examples, however, are consumer products, not serious tools: Most of the intelligent machines driving the Great Restructuring are significantly more complex to understand and master.

How did you explain a thing it had not occurred to you to question? A thing you just knew, clear through to your soul?

For news of the heart, watch the face.

For news of a mother's heart, watch her child's face.

From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is.

Jan Smuts, the brilliant young Transvaal state attorney, wrote of Botha that he had a natural sympathy that made it possible for him to "get extremely close to others and to read their minds and divine their characters with marvellous accuracy. It gave him an intuitive power of understanding and appreciating men which was very rare." Botha

One moment follows another. Next comes from previous. So you have to stay on your toes. Protect yourself. Listen to that little voice inside you that says, "Don't do that! You won't like the consequences." Look at all the stuff that's happened to you along the twisting road of your life—good and bad

Esto de planear en la oscuridad es más fácil de lo que la mayoría de la gente supone. Basta con cerrar los ojos, extender los brazos y dejarse llevar. Hay quien lo llama imaginación. Allá ellos.

Berkeley was unable to appreciate that mathematics was not concerned with a world of "real" sense impressions. In much the same manner today some philosophers criticize the mathematical conceptions of infinity and continuum, failing to realize that since mathematics deals with relations rather than with physical existence, its criterion of truth is inner consistency rather than plausibility in the light of sense perception of intuition.

Definitions of number, as given by several later mathematicians, make the limit of an infinite sequence identical with the sequence itself. Under this view, the question as to whether the variable reaches its limit is without logical meaning. Thus the infinite sequence .9, .99, .999,... is the number one, and the question, "Does it ever reach one?" is an attempt to give a metaphysical argument which shall satisfy intuition.

In making the basis of the calculus more rigorously formal, Weierstrass also attacked the appeal to intuition of continuous motion which is implied in Cauchy's expression -- that a variable approaches a limit.

The mathematical theory of continuity is based, not on intuition, but on the logically developed theories of number and sets of points.

Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.

The true leader is always led.

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Tenham também um 'confessor', homem ou mulher. As mulheres são muito bem dotadas para isso. Elas possuem uma intuição muitas vezes excelente, uma crítica pertinente e podem perceber o jogo dos homens, e às vezes também as intrigas de sua anima. Elas descobrem aspectos que o homem não vê. É por esse motivo que uma mulher jamais se convence de que seu marido pode ser um super-homem.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions.

I thought perhaps she was crazy, but she was only highly intuitive.

In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.