Quotes About Intuition

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive, inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it.

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

The mind can assert anything, and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.