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Quotes About Intuition

Don't just think with your head, think with your whole body.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Your instincts are telling you something. Trust them and listen to them.
~ Ed Viesturs
All he knew was that he could not eat the flesh of this black man, and thus hereditary instinct, ages old, usurped the functions of his untaught mind and saved him from transgressing a worldwide law of whose very existence he was ignorant.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
There was no need for words—at least none that I could imagine, unless Perry desired to pray. And I was quite sure that he would
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
But it was one of those moments when neither seemed to speak deliberately, when an indwelling voice in each called to the other across unsounded depths of feeling.
~ Edith Wharton
It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.
~ Edith Wharton
He and she belonged to each other for always: he understood that now. The impulse which had first drawn them together again, in spite of reason, in spite of themselves almost, that deep-seated instinctive need that each had of the other, would never again wholly let them go.
~ Edith Wharton
The one woman knew but did not understand; the other, it seemed, understood without knowing.
~ Edith Wharton
one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.
~ Edith Wharton
Una de las mejores intuiciones del cochero de alquiler fue descubrir que los norteamericanos desean alejarse de sus diversiones aún con mayor prontitud que llegar a ellas.
~ Edith Wharton
It's waiting for us: it seems to know.
~ Edith Wharton
Jamás os pedíais nada el uno al otro, ¿verdad? Y nunca os contabais nada. Os sentabais, os mirabais y adivinabais lo que pasaba por dentro. ¡Un asilo de sordomudos, en definitiva!
~ Edith Wharton
Creativity is magic, don't examine it too closely.
~ Edward Albee
You believe it?" "A man should always believe his wife, sir.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Who in your life is one step ahead of you in knowing people? What does that person do?
~ Edward T. Welch
Then take them there. They can still change their minds, can't they? But you make sure Rack understands that he owes us both a finder's fee, if they pass his tests." "They will," Mr. Quindar said. "Got a nose for these things, I 'ave. And these sisters ain't slipping through my fingers.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
~ Albert Einstein
An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.
~ Albert Einstein
For my wife, Mozelle, who, honeysuckle-fairytale downhome girl that she is, was, as the old folks used to say, born knowing.
~ Albert Murray
But a collie is like no other dog. Back in his brain ever lurks the queerly wise instinct, though never incurable savagery, of the olden wolves he sprang from.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Then, his odd collie sense had told him that for some reason this staggering and hiccuping creature was not the master whom he knew and loved. This man was strangely different from the Link Ferris whom Chum knew. Puzzled, the dog had halted and had stood irresolute.
~ Albert Payson Terhune
Science is to see what everyone else has seen but think what no one else has thought.
~ Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
The main thing is knowing how to see, To know how to see without thinking, To know how to see when you see, And not think when you see Or see when you think.
~ Alberto Caeiro
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
~ Alec Wilkinson