Quotes About Intuition

Instinct" is a concept intended to bridge the gap between needs and goals, bypassing man's cognitive (i.e., reasoning and learning) faculty.

Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!

The secret is, said Phoebe, smiling, that I have learned how to talk with hens and chickens.

She might, in one of her phases, have been a prophetess

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived. When, however, it forms its judgment, as it usually does, on the intuitions of its great and warm heart, the conclusions thus attained are often so profound and so unerring, as to possess the character of truth supernaturally revealed.

If your heart tells you something but your mind tells you something else, which do you believe? Both are just as apt to lie. In fact, they play at deceit all the time. Mostly they balance each other, giving us that crucial reality check. But what happens on the rare occasions when they conspire together?

I won't tell you what to look for, because if I do, you'll miss the things you would intuitively find.

The good Lord wouldn't have put it in your heart if it wasn't right.

Book smarts are nice like heelies are nice: They'll only get you so far, until you have to use your freaking feet. In fight-or-flight situations it's the street smarts that will get you out alive.

The Chop Shop is soundproof. Somehow he knew it would be.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.

if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.

There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts.

Maybe I should have slammed her? How did a man know what to do? Generally, I decided, it was better to wait, if you had any feeling for the individual. If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

But she couldn't dismiss easily his light touch with her. No pushing or pressing, none of that herding and corralling bullshit, unlike any of her old boyfriends. And maybe who you fell for and who you eventually loved wasn't rational, no matter how hard you tried to list pros and cons and sum the results. You couldn't think your way through it, not all the way. Maybe just the scent of somebody carried more weight than everything else put together.

God's voice isn't all that difficult to hear. In fact, you almost have to be closing your eyes and stopping your ears to miss it.

a man cannot make himself believe a lie just because it profits him. Men

Ray Bradbury said it best: "Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.

Signs, after all, were everywhere; it was just a question of knowing how to read them.

this was why men fell in love with strippers and escorts: it wasn't the licentiousness, the dissembling, their craven willingness to do whatever you wanted. It was the way they would, out of the blue, surprise you with the psychic ability to know what you needed.

I mean, I can tell within the first two minutes if I'm into someone or not. I can always tell if I get butterflies.

I believe, a woman can always create miracles and foresee a lot of things that a man might not be able to do.