Quotes About Intuition

Daniel Kahneman's book Thinking, Fast and Slow,

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Faith is confidence in our moral instincts as the best evidence we have or can have of the Divine will and the Divine character.

The wisest man is the man who is most in sympathy with nature; who follows most closely in her footsteps; yields most readily to her intimations; catches quickest her whispers; sets up least his own will, or prejudices, or notions, against her instructions.

Your mind knows only somethings. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what youknow instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

Her motherly instinct told her that there was too much of something in Natasha, and that it would prevent her from being happy.

I wanted feeling to guide us in life, and not life to be the guide to feeling.

And at that moment Pierre felt that Hélène not only could, but must, be his wife, and that it could not be otherwise. He knew this at that moment as surely as if he had been standing at the altar with her. How and when this would be he did not know, he did not even know if it would be a good thing (he even felt, he knew not why, that it would be a bad thing), but he knew it would happen.

I know a gallant steed by tokens sure, And by his eyes I know a youth in love,

Her maternal instinct told her that Natasha had too much of something, and that because of this she would not be happy.

and at once, amidst all the skaters, he knew her. He knew she was there by the rapture and the terror that seized his heart.

He smiled happily, as his lover's wit, like his lover's eye, divined meanings unsupported by the evidence.

I trust every single person around me, and if I feel even a whiff of uncertainty I won't have that person around me.

Ma certe cose che la mente non intende, il cuore le intende.

Reason must know the heart's reasons and every other reason

He liked the way she talked. There was something in her eyes too. He saw it the first time when she had said, 'I've seen you before many times, and I always remembered you.' Josiah could not remember ever seeing her before, but there was something in her hazel brown eyes that made him believe her.

I think they call it EQ, emotional quotient. It's kind of like IQ, but it means you're able to sense shifts in

I knew that this man was repeating a pattern over and over again: courting a woman with his intelligence and sympathy, claiming her emotionally; then, when she began to claim in return, running away. And the better a woman was, the sooner he would begin to run. I knew this with my intuition, and yet I sat there in my dark room, looking at the hazed wet brilliance of the purple London night sky, longing with my whole being.

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.

In the strictest sense, anxiety is not a problem at all, but a sign that we are in touch with our intuitive powers. In previous chapters we saw how the discipline of any judgmental or deceptive