Intuition Quotes - Page 39

• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

  Edmund Burke

  Passion, Soul, Fame

  Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

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• To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  Samuel Butler

  Love, Life, History

  Notebooks (1912) ch. 14

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  Albert Camus

  Law, Punishment, Definitions

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• I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.

  Deepak Chopra

  Leadership, Thinking, People

  "Deepak Chopra On Enlightened Leadership". Interview with Jenna Goudreau, www.forbes.com. January 12, 2011.

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• The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

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• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

  Jean Cocteau

  Truth, Honor, Trying

  "Moments of Clarity". Book by Thomas L. Jackson, March 31, 2002.

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• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Transcendentalism

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Civilization, Beast, Reason

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Natural Instinct, Impossible

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon

  Alice Sebold

  Mother, Powerful, Father

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• We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the same way it is often at the center of our plates. This doesn't require that we pretend we are going to have a collective agreement. However strong our intuitions are about what's right for us personally and even about what's right for others, we all know in advance that our positions will clash with those of our neighbors. What do we do with that most inevitable reality? Drop the conversation, or find a way to reframe it?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Strong, Reality, Animal

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, 2010.

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• And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

  Richard Dawkins

  Giving, Principles, Needs

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.166, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right choice.

  Arthur Japin

  Choices, Remember, Reason

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• Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round.

  S.M. Stirling

  Real, Men, Thinking

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• The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Knowing, Soul, Belief

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.

  Walter Isaacson

  Children, Light, Later In Life

  Walter Isaacson (2008). “Einstein: His Life and Universe”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.

  Brian Weiss

  Heart, Mean, Self

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• Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness.

  Paul Brunton

  Character, Growth, Tests

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the quest. Relax and retreat”, Larson Pubn

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• For a moment I had a strange intuition that just this, and in a real, profound sense, is life; and perhaps happiness even - love with a mixture of sadness, reverence, and silent knowledge.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Real, Sadness, Profound

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• To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being.

  Thomas Merton

  Joy, Levels, Sake

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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• Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a folk saying that captures the insight in a kind of wash. The intuition may be real and ripe, fresh with possibilities, but the folk saying is guaranteed to be a cliche, stale and self-contained.

  Anne Lamott

  Real, Self, People

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.113, Anchor

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• In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Strong, Soul And Body

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows, and so he uses his instinct and obeys his angel. in times of peace, he deciphers the signs that God sends him. People say, "He's mad." Or, "He lives in a fantasy world." Or even, "How can he possibly believe in such illogical things?" But the warrior knows that intuition is God's alphabet and he continues listening to the wind and talking to the stars.

  Paulo Coelho

  Stars, Believe, Angel

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• ...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

  Edith Wharton

  Amusement, Want, Get Away

  Edith Wharton (2016). “The Age of Innocence: American Literature”, p.2, VM eBooks

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• The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

  Albert Einstein

  Thinking, Faithful Servants, Perspective

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