Intuition Quotes - Page 16

• Science is not 'organized common sense'; at its most exciting, it reformulates our view of the world by imposing powerful theories against the ancient, anthropocentric prejudices that we call intuition.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Views, Common Sense

  Stephen Jay Gould (1992). “Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History”, p.91, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.

  Richard Dawkins

  Sports, Space, Rocks

  "The God Delusion". Book by Richard Dawkins, October 2, 2006.

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• One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural.

  Ted Allen

  Feelings, Becoming, Pickles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."

  Clayton Christensen

  Book, Writing, Successful

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• I think your main draws are instinct, intuition and empathy... those things that you can't really practice.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Thinking, Practice, Empathy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Staying true to my vision, to the word as it comes to me, to my own aesthetic judgments, even when they disagree with the majority culture, is very important to me, and I think important for every artist. It's what we have: our voice, our intuition, the truth as we understand and know it.

  Micheline Aharonian Marcom

  Artist, Thinking, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Each day, I would feel new wisdom and new intuition and I would follow that. Most everything I was doing was coming from that voice in my heart, which was affirmed by the ancient texts.

  Brad Willis

  Heart, Voice, Each Day

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The concept of intuition is more often used in philosophical theorizing than is the concept of observation in scientific theorizing (proportionately). One reason is that there is (proportionately) more ostensible conflict of philosophical intuitions than there is ostensible conflict of scientific observations. So much for the use of a concept of intuition in philosophical theorizing.

  Ernest Sosa

  Philosophical, Use, Conflict

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• As for geoengineering, there have been serious general critiques that I think cannot be ignored, like Clive Hamilton's, along with many positive assessments. It is not a matter for subjective judgment based on guesswork and intuition. Rather, these are matters that have to be considered seriously, relying on the best scientific understanding available, without abandoning sensible precautionary principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Assessment, Understanding

  "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, www.truth-out.org. September 17, 2016.

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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Firsts, True Ones

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Voice, Conviction, Inner Voice

  "Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma".

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• The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

  John W. Gardner

  Creativity, Imagination, Creative

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• I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Time, Math, Science

  "The Mind and the Eye: A Study of the Biologist's Standpoint". Book by A. Arber, 1954.

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• Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

  Shakti Gawain

  Motivational, Communication, Creative Visualization

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World”, p.129, New World Library

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• The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

  Clifford Geertz

  Mean, Thinking, Different

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• Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Giving, Childhood, May

  "Carlos Ghosn: In The Driver’s Seat". Interview with Richard M. Smith, www.newsweek.com. June 20, 2008.

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• Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says your experience of time is not what you think it is, that time is malleable. Your experience of space is not what you think it is; it can stretch and shrink.

  Brian Greene

  Thinking, Space, Challenges

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• Intuition is a strong feminine quality.

  Carolina Herrera

  Strong, Quality, Feminine

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• I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you're working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity.

  Werner Herzog

  Creativity, Thinking, Fantasy

  Interview with Scott Tobias, film.avclub.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.

  William Ralph Inge

  Beauty, Beautiful, Truth

  William Ralph Inge (1939). “Our present discontents”

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• When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Thinking, Imagination, Silence

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• We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Strong, Powerful, Quality

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• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Thinking, Way

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

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• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, War, People

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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