Quotes About Intuition

Faith is the best substitute for genius; in fact, it is closely allied to genius.

Soldiers can sometimes make decisions that are smarter than the orders they've been given.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

He could just look at people and listen to them and suddenly he'd know things about them.

You don't have to eat the entire turd to know that it's not a crab cake.

How could she have missed it? It was her knack, to see what people intended, what they were about to do. Yet she saw no further than his smile the first time they met, saw nothing but his genuine love and sympathy and concern for her. How could her knack have failed her?

He always knew the answer, even when she thought he wasn't paying attention.

Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Experience is a question of instinct about life.

Anybody can have common sense, povided that they have no imagination

Some things in life just become very clear and we don't need a reason for them at all: I knew at that moment what I'd have to do.

If you have a patient with a condition that's not understood why not ascribe it to a disorder that is also not understood? Autism occurs in males more than it does in females. So does higher order mathematical intuition. We think: What is this about? Dont know. What is at the heart of it? Dont know. All I can tell you is that I like numbers. I like their shapes and their colors and their smells and the way they taste. And I dont like to take people's word for things.

guess he said cattle could tell the difference between a flight of geese and a cat on fire. Maybe

The founders of quantum mechanics—Dirac, Pauli, Heisenberg—had nothing to guide them but an intuition about how the world should be.

He said that if a person understood the soul of the horse then he would understand all horses that ever were.

if mathematics is performed mostly in the unconscious we still have no notion as to how it goes about it. ... And why is it so often right? Who does it check its work with? I've had solutions simply handed to me. Out of the blue. The locus ceruleus perhaps. And it has to remember everything. No notes. It's hard to escape the unsettling conclusion that it is not using numbers.

It had always been a myth that it was those who loved you who could see through you. It was those you feared who could see through you most clearly.

But his heart, strangely enough, told him something else.

I woke up and knew he was gone. Straightaway I knew he was gone. When you love somebody you know these things. David Almond, Skellig

Un lettore non vede veramente i personaggi di una storia. Li sente.

Sometimes dreams are wiser than waking

When a young rabbit spots a hawk circling above, it may never have seen such a creature before- but there is some ancestral memory that tells it to be afraid, to leap in great, panicky bounds to the safety of the burrow

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.