Quotes About Intuition

All psychotherapy is ultimately something of an art. There is always an irrational element in psychotherapy. The doctor's artistic intuition and sensitivity is of considerable importance. The patient, too, brings an irrational element into the relationship: his individuality.

So conscience is essentially intuitive. To anticipate what is not yet, but is to be made real, conscience must be based on intuition. And it is in this sense that conscience may be called irrational.

He thinks he knows it all," said Anstey. "Most fools do," retorted Thorndyke. "They arrive at their knowledge by intuition—a deuced easy road and cheap travelling too.

You're the only person I've ever met who seems to have the faintest conception of what I mean when I say a thing.

One can only believe entirely, perhaps, in what one cannot see.

Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.

Kind old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always go to a good man, they say[.]

I have had my vision

No one showed an instant's suspicion that Orlando was not the Orlando they had known. If any doubt there was in the human mind the action of the deer and the dogs would have been enough to dispel it, for the dumb creatures, as is well known, are far better judges both of identity and character than we are.

They had always this queer power of communicating without words. She

En la enfermedad, parece que las palabras poseen una cualidad mística. Captamos lo que está más allá de su significado superficial, deducimos instintivamente (...)

Non era stato necessario che parlassero. Avevano pensato le stesse cose e lui aveva risposto senza che lei dovesse chiedere nulla. Era là in piedi e stendeva le mani su tutta la debolezza e la sofferenza dell'umanità; le parve che esaminasse, con tolleranza e compassione, il loro destino finale.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

Genius is finding the invisible link between things.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle even though we must keep a little aloof, a little detached when reading.

not to spell very well, but to smell very well

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

It is The Vague and Elusive.Meet it and you will not see its head.Follow it and you will not see its back.

Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.

One may know the world without going out of doors.One may see the Way of Heaven without looking through the windows.The further one goes, the less one knows.Therefore the sage knows without going about,Understands without seeing,And accomplishes without any action.

He who knows does not speak. He who speaks does not know.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

She felt like she was walking up on a wounded animal, unsure if reaching out to him was going to win her a bit of uneasy trust or a vicious taste of fang and claw.