Quotes About Intuition

The most important decisions we make in life are not made by post-Enlightenment left-brain rationality alone.

Do you have no sense of self-preservation?

Some People, we know in a heartbeat. Others, we'll never know, even if we speak to them for a thousand years.

The most practical thing in the world is common sense and common humanity.

A wisdom as constant as the North Star shines within all of us. It is always present. waiting to be tapped, waiting to guide us, to advise us. We need only use it to prevent its atrophy. No matter what our background, profession, color, or religion, employing this universal compass, this innate sense of what we know to be true, will help us establish a lifelong foundation - a place we go to recover our sanity and to regain our balance.

Sin embargo, tras unos minutos, nos miramos y… no sé cómo explicar esto, de verdad, pero en cuanto nuestros ojos se encontraron, supe que no quería seguir sentada en público con Annie mientras simulábamos ser solo amigas. Y supe que ella tampoco quería. Y las dos supimos que ya no teníamos el problema de no querer lo mismo al mismo tiempo y de estar asustadas.

I can feel you, even though I can't see you.

Feelings have their own kind of wisdom.

Instincts are given to us by God to guide us. It takes a strong woman to listen to those instincts and ignore what the world says to do.

intuition is just like that: sudden and complete, as if there were machinery working behind her eyes that even she has no access to. Clank, thunk.

My hand found the kitchen light switch before I could remember that I might not know where it was.

It feels as natural as anything she's ever done, as known and understood as the first time she had sex, as her body saying, Hey, I got this.

Experience, after all, is a trustworthier friend than intuition.

I think I intuitively suspected that perspective would put me outside the painting. I didn't want that. I wanted to get close to those tables and chairs, to jump in and feel myself dancing with them, even as I sat drawing them. I didn't want things to lie down; I wanted them to come forward, to beckon and call, to be noticed on the paper as I was noticing them in real life. I wanted the viewer to have a direct connection with the objects, to feel as happy as I was in their presence.

Before he sat down, my internal heat-seekers sensed what was coming my way: deep blue eyes that melted girls like Velveeta in a microwave. I tried to resist those microwave eyes, but sometimes there's no defense against them. I had a feeling I'd be seeing him weeping over my coffin later that night.

Sweet of her. Careful, Nicky. She'll feed your heart through her Magimix." "Well, you know me - I'm a guy who likes extreme sports.

a sense of certainty—that feeling of having complete faith . . . about your ability—that you can do something or that you know something . . . which allows you to bypass conscious thought—so well you don't have to think about it . . . and execute unconsciously—so you perform it automatically and instinctively.

A sixth sense cannot make up for a total lack of common sense.

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.

Poetry has to do with the non-rational parts of man. For a poet, a human being is a mystery… this is a religious feeling. OCTAVIO PAZ

Did he have extra-sharp hearing or just a sixth sense about the approach of his best friend?

Her reason partly agreed, her instinct wholly rebelled.

A thousand "tells" were broadcast every minute: a tic, a wince, a smell, a shadow, a draft, a flick of the hand, a door ajar. The human senses experienced them all. The human brain registered them. The human monkey mind, clamoring with the shouting littles of life, was lucky if it recognized one or two. The message from the gestalt trickled down in intuition, gut feelings, geese walking on one's grave, deja vu.

The ninth disciple is called James the son of Alphaeus. This is the quality of discernment, A clear and ordered mind is the voice which calls this disciple into being. This faculty perceives that which is not revealed to the eye of man.