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Quotes About Intuition

When we have given ourselves entirely to Spirit, we may do things without knowing exactly why. That is because faith is at work in us, and even if we do not know the law and cannot explain faith to the outer consciousness, it continues to do its perfect work and eventually brings forth the demonstration.
~ Napoleon Hill
The whole course of things goes to teach us faith. We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening, we shall hear the right word.
~ Napoleon Hill
A master salesperson knows what thoughts are in people's minds by the expressions on their faces, by the words they speak, by their silence, and by the "feeling" you get from within while you are in their presence. A master salesperson can predict the future by observing what has happened in the past. A master salesperson is the master of others because he or she masters himself or herself.
~ Napoleon Hill
A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sometimes people ask you a question with their eyes begging you to not tell them the truth.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
there is something in nature you don't understand, odds are it makes sense in a deeper way that is beyond your understanding.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If my brain can ttell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
we are effectively not skilled at intuitively gauging the impact of the improbable, such
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you find any reason why you and someone are friends, you are not friends.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
domain-specific I mean that our reactions, our mode of thinking, our intuitions, depend on the context in which the matter is presented, what
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
These may seem irrational to an outsider who defines rationality in terms of what he can explain.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The last thing a trader needs to do is be scientific or play econometrician during buisness hours.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If my brain can tell the difference between noise and signal, my heart cannot.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
their intuition getting in the way and blinding them.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe direcly, cannot capture in human language or within the narrow human concepts that are available to us.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
So many instincts drive us.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Significant signals have a way to reach you.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
You may not know in your mind where you are going, but you know it by doing.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Whenever your survival is in play, don't immediately look for causes and effects.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
First, fractal objects, as we have seen, can be generated with a simple rule applied to itself, which makes them ideal for the automatic activity of a computer (or Mother Nature). Second, in the generation of visual intuitions lies a dialectic between the mathematician and the objects generated.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Never ask people what they want, or where they want to go, or where they think they should go, or, worse, what they think they will desire tomorrow.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There are many things without words, matters that we know and can act on but cannot describe directly
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Develops intuitions from practice, goes from observations to books
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
A mind that trusts itself is light on its feet.
~ Nathaniel Branden