Quotes About Intuition

Wisdom oft comes from the mouth of babes.

Without imagination, there is no goodness, no wisdom.

I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.

The Nez Perce say: "Every animal knows more than you do.

Awed, I asked, 'How could you possibly have known enough about Jarel to trust him?' 'I didn't. I trusted you.

The heart can see things invisible to the eye.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma—which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and your intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

We are assaulted by so much information each day that it's easy to lose touch with the voice inside us, the compelling sense of knowledge, the awareness we have in our gut. In addition, we're often conditioned to dismiss our instincts as primal and animalistic, subjective and unscientific. We're taught to rely on facts and figures, data and digits, not hunches and gut feelings.

Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.

Our greatest power doesn't always emerge from our experiences, not even from our most intense ones. There's incredible hidden treasure locked up in your instincts that may not always show on your résumé. If you can spend some time with yourself, you may be on the verge of the most powerful part of your life, discovering what's inside that your instincts want to express outside. Think about what you gravitate toward when given time to relax and recharge.

Instinct and purpose often operate like a marriage.

When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.

Think with your whole body.

You forget I know you as my own son, Michael. The eyes that follow Lady Beatrix are not those of a man who stalks his prey—at least, not for the killing.

Always trust your instinct! If you just close your eyes, talk to God and listen you can always hear the truth

Trust your instincts, Dad always says. If something feels dodgy to you, if someone feels dodgy, you go with dodgy. Don't give the benefit of the doubt because you want to be a nice person, don't wait and see in case you look stupid. Safe comes first. Second could be too late.

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

I said I know my shot when I see it. Sometimes you don't even have to see it. Sometimes you feel it coming, screaming down the sky towards you like a meteor.

I looked at the back of Jessica's silky bent head and thought of those old stories where one twin is hurt and the other, miles away, feels the pain. I wondered if there had been a moment, during that giggly girls' night at Auntie Vera's, when she had made some small, unnoticed sound; if all the answers we wanted were locked away behind the strange dark gateways of her mind.

Only, somewhere far inside my spine and deep in the palms of my hands, something hummed; like a sound too low to hear, like a warning, like a cello string when a tuning fork strikes the perfect tone to call it awake.

Fasting is, I think, a profoundly instinctive form of appeal.

All I did was listen, Annie. When the Universe talks, I pay attention." He bent his head close to hers and said quietly, "Funny thing is … the closer you listen, the more it seems to say.

Strong emotions are messages from the unconscious.

mindfulness creates a "wise" attention, a space of clarity that emerges when we quiet the mind. It makes us more receptive to the whispers of our innate intuitive wisdom.