Quotes About Intuition

Stop trusting your eyes and start listening to your heart. It sees more than you ever will.

Trust Wes to say what people are thinking but are too smart to actually say aloud.

Great QA requires a perverse and sometimes sadistic intuition for what will cause software to blow up, crash, or endlessly hang. Maxine once heard a joke: "A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders zero beers. Orders 999,999,999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders negative one beer. Orders a 'sfdeljknesv.

He didn't want to think about the implications of this mysterious ability to see events that occurred in places where he wasn't physically present. What did they call it on those late night radio shows back in the twenty-first century? Oh yes, remote viewing.

Thanks, but no thanks, Mr. President. I feel the mission will only be successful if I go alone. It's not as if I don't appreciate any help I can get. It's just...something in the back of my mind is telling me not to take anyone with me, something I can't quite explain. Must be another one of my weird hunches, I guess.

When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

Some people need a poke in the eye to show them the right direction, others simply need pointing in the right direction. It is a question of having the wisdom to know when to point and when to poke.

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two faculties, which we may call intuition and ingenuity,

common sense is the one thing that will certainly be wrong.

He cut right through the layers of civilization, politeness, and social snobbery to some preternatural female sense that said, "Dominant male. Danger. Power. Sex." Why

If it feels wrong, it probably is.

To drink or not to drink? That was the question. I sipped it. If he'd spiked it, I could still kill him before I passed out.

All Maud had was an ability to read people and an innate understanding of violence and its degrees and uses. Within seconds of meeting an opponent, she knew exactly how to provoke or calm them and how much force she would have to use to stop, cripple, or kill them. Person or animal, Maud could take its measure and push them to the desired result. That's what made her so good at navigating vampire politics.

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility of such an a priori knowledge.

I do not say that things in themselves possess a quantity, that their reality possesses a degree, their existence a connection of accidents in a substance, etc. This nobody can prove, because such a synthetic connection from mere concepts, without any reference to sensuous intuition on the one side or connection of such intuition in a possible experience on the other, is absolutely impossible.

The understanding cannot intuit anything, the senses cannot think anything. Only from their union can knowledge arise.

iI Tempo non è altro che la forma dell'intuizione di noi stessi e del nostro stato interno

Love doesn't think like that. All right, it's blind as a bat--' 'Bats have radar. Yours doesn't seem to be working.

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

I don't like you, I love you. You're a portent for me, a sign. I've always lived by signs.

But there can be intuitions even here of a more sublime agony.