Quotes About Intuition

You see only with your heart, because your eyes miss what matters.

Healing," said the poet, "is not a science but the intuitive art of wooing nature.

Instead of answering, I just wrapped my arms around him and kissed him for all I was worth. Because when you meet The One, you just know.

He knows. I can see it in his eyes, he feels how much I love him still, and maybe he's always known.

Please trust me." I narrowed my eyes at her, instinctively looking for an ulterior motive, but found only genuine concern and a small gleam of excitement in her eyes. For some reason I wanted to trust her. Well, crap. Day, Kristen (2014-09-22). Forsaken (Book #1) (Daughters of the Sea) (p. 27). Kristen Day Books. Kindle Edition.

Do you love him?" How would I know?" You'd know.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

To be a great photographer you had to see first and feel later.

The soul needs your recklessness, not your wisdom.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities, and ways out of blocked situations.

Drawings are the product of intense observation, not intellectual interpretation.

I have learned that my total organismic sensing of a situation is more trustworthy than my intellect.

When I can relax, and be close to the transcendental core of me, then I may behave in strange and impulsive ways in the relationship, ways I cannot justify rationally, which have nothing to do with my thought processes. But these strange behaviors turn out to be right in some odd way. At these moments it seems that my inner spirit has reached out and touched the inner spirit of the other. Our relationship transcends itself and has become something larger.

I]n the work of the New Left one finds philosophical justification for what are now intuitive commonplaces of our culture: to be free is to be sexually liberated; to be happy is to be affirmed in that liberation.

I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.

Both also recognized that intellect was not drawn from reading alone. Intuition about individuals, the masses, and the truth of a reported situation was essential. That came from being out among others and engaging. Both inclined toward solitude, they each made the effort to pull themselves away from the page.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As

Science is born from this act of humility: not trusting blindly in our past knowledge and our intuition. Not believing what everyone says. Not having faith in the accumulated knowledge of our fathers and grandfathers. We learn nothing if we think that we already know the essentials, if we assume that they were written in a book or known by the elders of the tribe. The centuries in which people had faith in what they believed were the centuries in which little new was learned.

To ask oneself in general what exists or what is real means only to ask how would you like to use a verb and an adjective; it's a grammatical question, not a question about nature. Nature, for its part, is what it is, and we discover it very gradually. If our grammar and our intuition do not readily adapt to what we discover, well, too bad. We must seek to adapt them.

A lightbulb does not emit continuous light, it emits a hail of evanescent photons. At small scale, there is no continuity, or fixity, in the real world: there are discrete events, interactions, gapped and discrete. Schrödinger had fought tooth and nail against quantum discontinuity, against Bohr's quantum leaps, against Heisenberg's world of matrices: he wanted to defend the image of continuous reality provided by classical intuition.

we have realized that it is our immediate intuitions that are imprecise:

That which seems intuitive to us now is the result of scientific and philosophical elaborations in the past.

Ten years before understanding that time is slowed down by mass,21 Einstein had realized that it was slowed down by speed.22 The consequence of this discovery for our basic intuitive perception of time is the most devastating of all.