Intuition Quotes - Page 24

• Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Hard Work, Writing, Errors

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• Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Psychics, Meditation

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• Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.

  Richard Pascale

  War, Knowledge, Learning

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press

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• Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

  Joe Wright

  Choices, Feelings, Needs

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• Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Mma, Two, White

  Alexander McCall Smith (2008). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”, p.11, Hachette UK

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• Even the wisest of mankind cannot live by reason alone; pure arrogant reason, denying the claims of prejudice (which commonly are also the claims of conscience), leads to a wasteland of withered hopes and crying loneliness, empty of God and man: the wilderness in which Satan tempted Christ was not more dreadful than the arid expanse of intellectual vanity deprived of tradition and intuition, where modern man is tempted by his own pride.

  Russell Kirk

  Loneliness, Pride, Men

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.41, Regnery Publishing

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• Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

  Michael Bassey

  Blessed, Flesh, Path

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• General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Decision, Judgment, Subtle

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• Our inner guidance comes to us through our feelings and body wisdom first - not through intellectual understanding. The intellect works best in service to our intuition, our inner guidance, soul, God or higher power - whichever term we choose for the spiritual energy that animates life.

  Christiane Northrup

  Spiritual, Understanding, Soul

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• Intuition is a heart message minus the static.

  Sue Thoele

  Heart, Messages, Awareness

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• Intuition is the voice of the spirit within you.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Honesty, Voice, Spirit

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• Angels can help us understand what intuition means in a personal way. Angels are actually in charge of a large part of our intuitive self. Viewing intuition from the perspective of angel consciousness, we can say that intuition is our way of tapping into a higher power for guidance and awareness.

  Terry Taylor

  Character, Mean, Angel

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• I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.

  Bill Murray

  Mouths, Knows

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• We must evaluate the political sympathies of other states and the effect war may have on them. To assess these things in all their ramifications and diversity is plainly a colossal task. Rapid and correct appraisal of them clearly calls for the intuition of a genius; to master all this complex mass by sheer methodical examination is obviously impossible. Bonaparte was quite right when he said that Newton himself would quail before the algebraic problems it could pose.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Diversity, Political

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• Hitler had a great gift for adjusting - consciously or intuitively - to his surroundings. ... With enormous histrionic intuition he could shape his behavior to changing situations.

  Albert Speer

  Shapes, Adjusting, Behavior

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• For most problems found in mathematics textbooks, mathematical reasoning is quite useful. But how often do people find textbook problems in real life? At work or in daily life, factors other than strict reasoning are often more important. Sometimes intuition and instinct provide better guides; sometimes computer simulations are more convenient or more reliable; sometimes rules of thumb or back-of-the-envelope estimates are all that is needed.

  Lynn Steen

  Real, People, Important

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• Sometimes we work so fast that we don't really understand what's going on in front of the camera. We just kind of sense that, 'Oh my God, it's significant!' and photograph impulsively while trying to get the exposure right. Exposure occupies my mind while intuition frames the images.

  Minor White

  Mind, Trying, Cameras

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• Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Pride, Rope, Ladders

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (2012). “Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks”, p.69, Regnery Publishing

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• A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what the solution 'should look like.' ... Science is ultimately based on insight, not logic.

  Guy Consolmagno

  Looks, Logic, Problem

  Guy Consolmagno (2000). “Brother Astronomer: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist: Adventures of a Vatican Scientist”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

  Henri Poincare

  Logic, Prove It, Prove

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• Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

  Meister Eckhart

  Memories, Finding Love, Soul

  Meister Eckhart (1924). “Meister Eckhart”

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• We must be born with an intuition of mortality.

  Tom Stoppard

  Mortality, Born, Rosencrantz And Guildenstern

  Tom Stoppard (2007). “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”, p.72, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Sex is the root of which intuition is the foliage and beauty is the flower.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Sex, Flower, Roots

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• It is a fallacy of the old schools to divide man into parcels, elements, thoughts, emotions, intuitions, etc.  All human faculties consist of an interconnected whole.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Old School, Men, Etc

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• The binding of reason and intuition is the fundamental crisis of the era we call humanity. Transcedence of duality is the key.

  Phil Collins

  Keys, Humanity, Fundamentals

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