Intuition Quotes - Page 18

• Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Success, Blink, Insight

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• I learned...that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

  Brenda Ueland

  Inspiration, Creativity, Creating

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• Montalbano felt moved. This was real friendship, Sicilian friendship, the kind based on intuition, on what was left unsaid. With a true friend, one never needs to ask, because the other understands on his own accordingly.

  Andrea Camilleri

  True Friend, Real, Needs

  Andrea Camilleri (2012). “Inspector Montalbano: The first three novels in the series”, p.449, Pan Macmillan

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• You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

  Sam Harris

  Rely Upon, World, Next

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• I know California isn't a real destination. You can't get there from New Jersey, not simply by following a line drawn on a map. The process of arrival is more subtle and complex. It involves acts of contrition. You must appease the gods. You must find novel forms of penance. You must tattoo your children and look at the wonder. It's about conjuring and awakening and intuitions you wish you never had.

  Kate Braverman

  Tattoo, Children, Real

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• If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.109, Booklassic

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• 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.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Bertrand Russell (2008). “History of Western Philosophy”, p.527, Simon and Schuster

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• No one expects the rug to be yanked out from underneath them; life-changing events usually don’t announce themselves. While instinct and intuition can help provide some warning signs, they can do little to prepare you for the feeling of rootlessness that follows when fate flips your world upside down. Anger, confusion, sadness, and frustration are shaken up together inside you like a snow globe. It takes years for the emotional dust to settle as you do your best to see through the storm.

  Slash

  Life Changing, Sadness, Fate

  Slash (2012). “Slash: The Autobiography”, p.26, HarperCollins UK

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• To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

  Paulo Coelho

  Challenges, Environmental, Action

  Female First Interview, www.femalefirst.co.uk. March 17, 2007.

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• Spiritual Partnership ... The new female and the new male are partners on a journey of spiritual growth. They want to make the journey. Their love and trust keep them together. Their intuition guides them. They consult with each other. They are friends. They laugh a lot. They are equals. That is what a spiritual partnership is: a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth.

  Gary Zukav

  Spiritual, Journey, Flames

  Gary Zukav, Linda Francis (2012). “Soul Stories”, p.145, Simon and Schuster

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• The boy was beginning to understand that intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it's all written there.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Boys, People

  "The Alchemist". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1993.

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• There's something that just happens to you when you have a baby, and you look at their little eyes for the first time when you're holding them. They've been safe inside your belly for almost 10 months, and now they're in your arms. Intuition kicks in, where you will do anything for them and you have all the tools inside of you to take care of them.

  Hilary Duff

  Mom, Mother, Baby

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• Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

  Richard Courant

  Struggle, Expression, Perfection

  Richard Courant, Herbert Robbins, Ian Stewart (1996). “What is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods”, p.23, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites
  with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates.
  As soon as we are successful in silencing the restless activity of the thinking mind
  and give a chance to intuition, the pure all embracing spirit in us will manifest effortlessly.

  Anagarika Govinda

  Lying, Successful, Thinking

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• Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

  Mother Teresa

  Mother, Heart, Hunger For Love

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.

  Anne Lamott

  Inspirational Life, Feet, Looks

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.

  Judith Orloff

  Emotional, Trust Your Intuition

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• A woman isn't very powerful without her intuition.

  Judith Orloff

  Powerful, Emotional, Very Powerful

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• The struggle of the male to learn to listen to and respect his own intuitive, inner prompting is the greatest challenge of all. His conditioning has been so powerful that it has all but destroyed his ability to be self-aware.

  Herb Goldberg

  Powerful, Struggle, Self

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• Reason is the servant of instinct.

  Clarence Day

  Reason, Instinct, Servant

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• Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

  Laurence Olivier

  Natural Instinct, Instinct, Inherent

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

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• The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

  Mick Taylor

  Friends, Important, Taste

  "The Artist Shop IRC Chat with Mick Taylor". www.artist-shop.com. April 18, 1999.

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• Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps that are the most interesting stuff.

  Adrian Lyne

  Iron, Interesting, Bumps

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• There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Pregnancy, Mastery, Morality

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1920). “Modes and Morals”

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• There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Lucky, Research

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