Quotes About Intuition

Intuitives tend to define intelligence as "quickness of understanding" and so prejudge the case in their own favor, for intuition is very quick.

They [sensing types] will not skim in reading, and they hate to have people skim in conversation. Believing that matters inferred are not as reliable as matters explicitly stated, they are annoyed when you leave things to their imagination. (Intuitives are often annoyed—if not actually bored—when you do not.)

Whereas the intuitive children like to learn by insight, the sensing children prefer to learn by familiarization.

things directly through our five senses. The other is the process of intuition, which is indirect perception by way of the unconscious, incorporating ideas or associations that the unconscious tacks on to perceptions coming from outside.

I just don't want to bother looking at recipes. To me, that's not cooking—being tied to a piece of paper." He

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

I am becoming convinced that the world wants to tell me something, send me messages, signals, warnings.

rivelandosi uno di quegli incerti impulsivi o impulsivi incerti che sembra sempre non sappiano cogliere il momento giusto e invece l'azzeccano ogni volta.

Non sapevo che vi conosceste - Ci siamo incontrati in un sogno

È una delle grandi difficoltà della vita d'indovinare ciò che una donna vuole. Ascoltarne le parole non serve, perché tutto un discorso può essere annullato da uno sguardo e neppure questo sa dirigerci quando ci si trova con lei, per suo volere, in una comoda buia stanzuccia.

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

How conscience tells us that we ought to be fair, nobody knows. This we can say: we don't know it just from being told, we don't know it from the five senses, and we don't know it by inference from prior knowledge. We just know it. The knowledge is "underived.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Chemistry is a funny thing, miss. Sometimes those who are experiencing it aren't always aware they are.

When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.

He couldn't see her face of course but he knew she was smiling.

Other people visualize by means of intuition or a vague sense of simply knowing something. It's

I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work.

You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it away.

We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things — our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.