Quotes About Intuition

Eyesight should learn from reason.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem.

Guessing before proving! Need I remind you that it is so that all important discoveries have been made?

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

The science is in knowing; the art in perceiving.

Art isn't a science or a job; it's alive.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

Science is the special province of the ego. And magic and art are the special province of something else. I could name it, but I won't. It prefers to be unnamed

Deviner avant de démontrer! Ai-je besoin de rappeler que c'est ainsi que se sont faites toutes les découvertes importantes.

When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.

'Healing, ' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

The Sufis, ' runs the saying, 'understand with their hearts what the most learned scholars cannot understand with their minds

What seeks you when you are not seeking, is the universe's way of speaking to you without speaking.

Life is not an exact science, it is an art.

If your words do not have a smile, if you do not talk heart to heart, and you decide everything with your head, it is better to keep a dog as a friend rather than you.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.

You came one day and as usual in such matters significance filled everything- your eyes, the things you knew, the way you turned, leaned, stood, or sat, this way or that.

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

You see, that's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you—without you asking.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.

Romanticism is a philosophy of intuitive agreement. In real love, there is no need tiresomely to articulate or spell things out. When two people belong together, there is simply – at long last – a wondrous reciprocal feeling that both parties see the world in precisely the same way.