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Quotes About Intuition

We are living in a moment where we have broken the equilibrium of the planet. We are not paying attention to our intuitive side. We only pay attention to our reason. We have become an urban animal
~ Sebastiao Salgado
The fingers must be educated the thumb is born knowing.
~ Marc Chagall
Just be careful. Learn your lessons well, and always follow your instincts.
~ Danielle Steel
Christophe was so much better, so trusting and so kind. Sam had a sharp edge to him and saw through her.
~ Danielle Steel
Always go with your gut. Overthinking things has ruined more good dreams than I don't know what.
~ David Baldacci
her with him she was likely going to
~ David Baldacci
Shaw didn't answer, He didn't know anything, not for sure. But what he did have was an instict that almost never led him down the wrong path. And every inner warning signal he had was blaring away.
~ David Baldacci
Call it curiosity. Call it instinct. And I am a man who has followed his instincts. —I thought it was principles. —In my experience, they're one and the same.
~ David Bezmozgis
You should always listen to your woman, and then make your own decision. If you choose to go with your woman's suggestion even when deep in your heart you feel that another decision is more wise, you are, in effect, saying, "I don't trust my own wisdom." You are weakening yourself by telling yourself this. You are weakening your woman's trust in you: why should she trust your wisdom if you don't?
~ David Deida
Raphael watched, and gradually he began to understand them. At first it was not even a theory, but rather a kind of intuition. He found that he could look at any one of them and almost smell the impending crisis. That was the key word—crisis. At first it seemed too dramatic a term to apply to situations resulting from their bumbling mismanagement of their lives or deliberate wrongheaded stupidity, but they themselves reacted as if these situations were in fact crises.
~ David Eddings
Men's minds ran to straight lines, but women thought more in terms of circles.
~ David Eddings
Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.
~ David Foster Wallace
From that day, whether I could articulate it satisfactorily or not,' Day says, holding the knee of the leg just crossed, 'I understood on an intuitive level why people killed themselves. If I had to go for any length of time with that feeling I'd surely kill myself.' 'Time in the shadow of the wing of the thing too big to see, rising.
~ David Foster Wallace
The kid has no idea he even knows something's wrong
~ David Foster Wallace
Possible Scandinavian-psychodrama parody, a boy helps his alcoholic-delusional father and disassociated mother dismantle their bed to search for rodents, and later he intuits the future feasibility of D.T.-cycle lithiumized annular fusion.
~ David Foster Wallace
No, she simply felt - at times, mind you, not all the time, but at sharp and distinctive intuitive moments - as if she had no real existence, except for what she said and did and perceived and et cetera, and that these were, it seemed at such times, not really under her control. There was nothing pure.
~ David Foster Wallace
And I'll say that I felt something dark in my heart when my husband almost nudged me there. I felt that it was a sorry business indeed when my own spouse couldn't tell I was being serious. And I told him so.
~ David Foster Wallace
Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!
~ William Shakespeare
Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
~ William Shakespeare
All that follow their noses are led by their eyes but blind men; and there's not a nose among twenty but can smell him that's stinking.
~ William Shakespeare
The Stationmaster, sensing something more than just two dogs and a boy, waited in silence.
~ Wilson Rawls
I may not be a smart man, but I know what love is.
~ Winston Groom
Le cœur a ses raisons, que la raison ne connait pas.' It
~ Winston S. Churchill
Once you learn to think like another creature, you can anticipate what it will do and react before it ever acts. If that sounds a little Hollywood, then you've seen your share of movies about impossibly clairvoyant FBI profilers who can "see with the eyes of the killer." But out there on the Kalahari plains, mind-throwing was a very real and potentially deadly talent.
~ Christopher McDougall