Quotes About Intuition

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The critical mind is too thin and cold, thinking itself will help little and reason will be of small avail; only the spirit of reasonableness, a sort of warm, glowing, emotional and intuitive thinking, joined with compassion, will insure us against a reversion to our ancestral type. Only the development of our life to bring it into harmony with our instincts can save us. I consider the education of our senses and our emotions rather more important than the education of our ideas.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

The human doesn't need long mathematical equations to hit a home run in baseball. The human body already understands the math involved and can do it with just some practice. Isn't that wonderful?

We mothers have to be part sleuth, I realized.

If God had intended us to follow recipes, He wouldn't have given us grandmothers.

A native friend of mine writes: It can be hard to tell true Guidance from your own ego in disguise. True Guidance is subtle and can be overshadowed by our own wishful thinking. So Guidance is most trustworthy when what it tells you is something you don't want to do, or at least something you would never have thought of yourself. Guidance is most questionable when it matches what you do want to do.

The growing knowledge of science does not refute man's intuition of the mystical. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or in time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvelous it becomes.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

When I work alone, it can be like dabbling with a canvas. Maybe you paint over bits, and it starts to form its own life and lead you off in a direction. It becomes an intuitive, subconscious process.

But one should not trust first impulses. Instinct is not always a safe counsellor by any means.

He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.

Infants have great intuition, because intuition's about all they've got.

an uneasy feeling that something was very, very wrong stuck with her.

Sometimes the closest-held secrets in the world can be pried out by the right question at the right time.

Our gazes met. It seemed an entire conversation took place in that one glance. Each of us saw what we needed to know.

Do you think I should stay away from him?" I asked in a scratchy voice. Todd took a long time to answer. "My advice is, if you're inclined in that direction, go with your eyes open. It's okay to let someone play you, Haven, as long as you know what's going on.

Somehow I knew that no matter what I chose to tell or to keep secret, he would understand.

I've never been convinced that everything in a relationship needs to be talked about. Some things can't be fixed by a conversation

When you meet the right man, the list of things you would never do suddenly becomes much shorter.

While our ancestor chiefs at least had some intuitive feel for important variables like agriculture and cavalry our contemporary chiefs (and those in the media responsible for scrutiny of decisions) generally do not understand their equivalents, and are often less experienced in managing complex organisations than their predecessors.

Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment.