Intuition Quotes - Page 35

• I would not advise people to buy a car or house without making a list. You will probably improve your intuitions by making a list and then sleeping on it.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Sleep, People, Car

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• Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.

  Peter Singer

  People, Understanding, Feelings

  Peter Singer (2010). “The Life You Can Save: How to play your part in ending world poverty”, p.61, Pan Macmillan

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• Intuition is a walkie-talkie between the personality an the soul.

  Gary Zukav

  Personality, Soul, Walkie Talkies

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• A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

  Rachel Cusk

  Character, World, Born

  Rachel Cusk (2015). “Outline: A Novel”, p.21, Macmillan

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• My sense of designing is a mix of intuition and intellectual control.

  Olivier Theyskens

  Design, Intellectual

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• The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Ignorance, Origin Of Life

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• Everything that I do is limitation and complete intuition. I'm a human being. I'm not a musician. I'm not an entertainer. I don't know anything!

  Willis Earl Beal

  Musician, Entertainers, Humans

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 20, 2013.

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• Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

  Shakti Gawain

  World, Reason, Enormous

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

  Shakti Gawain

  Opposites, Mind, Needs

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms of polarities - two ends of the same continuum. Young/old, male/female, individuality/conformity, work/play, freedom/constraint, right/left, day/night, life/death, rational/emotional, and so on.

  Shakti Gawain

  Night, Emotional, Play

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• Mind and intuition are at opposite ends of the same continuum and our goal is to strike a healthy balance between the two.

  Shakti Gawain

  Opposites, Two, Goal

  "Shakti Gawain Is Still ‘Living in the Light’". Interview with BJ Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2012.

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• The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

  George Santayana

  Art, Queens, Passion

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.38, Рипол Классик

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• Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

  Francoise Sagan

  Impression, Ifs

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• I would call the attention of the reader to the difference between "reason" and "reasoning." Reason is a light, reasoning a process. Reason is a faculty, reasoning an exercise of that faculty. Reasoning proceeds from one truth to another by means of argumentation. This generally involves the whole mind in labor and complexity. But reason does not exist merely in order to engage in reasoning. The process is a means to an end. The true fulfillment of reason as a faculty is found when it can embrace the truth simply and without labor in the light of single intuition.

  Thomas Merton

  Mean, Exercise, Light

  Thomas Merton (2002). “The Ascent to Truth”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect finally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.

  Josiah Royce

  Land, Tools, Forgotten

  Josiah Royce (1913). “The Problem of Christianity: The real world and the Christian ideas”

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• 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.

  Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov

  Science, Levels, Mathematics

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• As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Men, Two, Doubt

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• Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

  Saul Kripke

  World, Care, Philosopher

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• I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

  Jim Goldberg

  Brain, Use, Students

  "Photographer Jim Goldberg's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

  Christina Stead

  May, Messages, Infallible

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• The more we know, the better our intuitions.

  Christina Stead

  Knows

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• The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lasts, Facts, Analysis

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• The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Psychics, Needs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Art, Science, Law

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• Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

  Crane Wilbur

  Police Work, Needs, Facts

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