Quotes About Intuition

proficiency in inferring the large-scale and small-scale structure of our immediate environment, or any features of parts of the universe distant from our ancestral stomping grounds, was of no relevance to our ancestors' reproductive fitness. Hence, there is no reason to imagine that our habitual intuitions and inferential responses are well designed for science or for metaphysics.

I also smell it on you.

Beneath my incredulity All at once is flowing Joy, the flash of the unbaited hook -- Yes, yes, it fits, it's right, it had to be! Intuition weightless and ongoing Like stanzas in a book Or golden scales in the melodic brook --

Fang felt a cold jolt, then dismissed it. Max wasn't dead. He would know, somehow. He would have felt it. The world still felt the same to him; therefore, Max was still in it.

There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

Well, it's like I have a GPS inside me, I told them. One of the talking ones. I tell it where I want to go, and it tells me, Go twenty miles, turn left, take Exit Ninety-fourm and so one. It can be pretty bossy, frankly. Their eyes widened. Really? said one. No you idiot, I said in disgust. I don't know how it works. I just know it has an unfailing ability to point me in the opposite direction of a bunch of boneheads.

I don't know about the rest of you who have little voices, but something about mine made me feel completely compelled to listen to it.

Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.

People Trust Me with their secrets, and I'm not sure why. It must be something in my face, probably my eyes.

had a sneaking suspicion that

said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

Whenever there is any doubt, there is no doubt." In other words, trust your gut.

Pascal said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

The process of receiving information for me is seeing, hearing, and feeling their energy in my frame of reference. That doesn't mean I see the individual, unfortunately.

What I think a psychic is, unfortunately, I think in this day and age, it's taken on sort of a rancid sound.

I have a unique ability to predict the flight of the ball, and my teammates have a unique ability to find me.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

Remember - the universal language is not texted, emailed, or spoken. It is felt.

No one intuitively understands quantum mechanics because all of our experience involves a world of classical phenomena where, for example, a baseball thrown from pitcher to catcher seems to take just one path, the one described by Newton's laws of motion. Yet at a microscopic level, the universe behaves quite differently.

Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.

Artists live in unknown spaces and give themselves over to following something unknown.

I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity - you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown.