Quotes About Intuition

Its nice to know that your common sense stands between me and the grave.

Bert's dog smelled nature or history and began to tremble.

If I told you, you'd only know it in your mind, not in your heart. There's a big difference.

Guessing is a weakness brought on by indolence and should never be confused with intuition.

One must never disregard a message from the universe.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty. —RUDYARD KIPLING (1865–1936)

My dear man, every woman has felt herself surrounded by foxes at one time or another, if not by wolves.

and Vivian eyed something no one else could see. Then

People think it's OK to harbor negative thoughts and feelings about other people. They think the other person doesn't know about it. I have news for you. We are all sending and receiving signals without realizing it. If you have negative thoughts and feelings about someone they know it. Don't kid yourself. They know it.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

One of the many sad results of the Industrial Revolution was that we came to depend more than ever on the intellect, and to ignore the intuition with its symbolic thinking.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

Mathematics is not about numbers, equations, computations, or algorithms: it is about understanding.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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.

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Art can contradict Science.

But 'the physical level of rigor' is higher on certainty than the logical one, since reproducible experiments are more reliable than anybody's, be it Hilbert's, Einstein's or Gödel's intuition.

Inspiration in Science may have to do with ideas, but not in Art. In art it is in the senses that are instinctively responsive to the medium of expression.

Mathematics in general is fundamentally the science of self-evident things.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Genius... means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.