Intuition Quotes - Page 6

• Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.

  Rene Descartes

  Light, Mind, Reason

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• No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Inspirational, Trust, Entrepreneur

  Cherry blossoms and robotics, 1983.

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Analysis, Instinct

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

  Andre Weil

  Mean, Connections, Doe

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• Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

  W. L. George

  Dog, Men, Causes

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• Intellect confuses intuition.

  Piet Mondrian

  Intellect

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• All decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Self, Decision, Analysis

  Marcel Duchamp (2002). “Marcel Duchamp”, Hatje Cantz Pub

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• Compassion is more important than intellect in calling forth the love that the work of peace needs, and intuition can often be a far more powerful searchlight than cold reason.

  Betty Williams

  Powerful, Compassion, Often Is

  Betty Williams' Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1977.

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• Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, Long, Training

  BlackberryWinter ch. 14 (1972)

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• I know intuitively when the work is right, no training can teach you this, it is simply a matter of feeling.

  Robert Ryan

  Feelings, Training, Matter

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• Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is just right).

  Oprah Winfrey

  Jobs, Instinct, Guts

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• I suspect we have internal senses. The mind's eye since Shakespeare's time has been proverbial; and we have also a mind's ear. To say nothing of dreams, one certainly can listen to one's own thoughts, and hear them, or believe that one hears them: the strongest argument adducible in favour of our hearing any thing.

  Augustus William Hare

  Dream, Believe, Eye

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yield, Elements, Way

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• I allow my intuition to lead my path.

  Manuel Puig

  Path, Instinct

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• For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Stars, Mind, Desire

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.10012, Delphi Classics

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• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Love, Relationship, Needs

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

  Robert Ley

  World, Instinct, Hunches

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• Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Juicy, Rich, Rationality

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

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• To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Heart, Feelings, Path

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• Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self-inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

  Deepak Chopra

  Philosophy, Creativity, Reflection

  "Exclusive: Deepak Chopra Explores the Evolution of God". Interview with Dan Schawbel, www.forbes.com. September 25, 2012.

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• The apprehension of... values is intuitive; but it is not a built-in intuition, not something with which one is born. Intuition in art is actually the result of... prolonged tuition.

  Ben Shahn

  Art, Born, Results

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• Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

  Steve Jobs

  Powerful, Abstract Thinking, Intellect

  "The Genius of Jobs". www.nytimes.com. October 29, 2011.

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• Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the last thing he would do is create categories; the avowed purpose of Zen is to eliminate categories! The true Zen-man holds to the old Taoist proverb,
  Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.

  Tom Hoover

  Friends, Art, Men

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• Trust your Heart.  Value its intuition.  Choose to let go of fear, and to open to the true and you will awaken to the freedom, clarity and joy of Being

  Mooji

  Letting Go, Heart, Joy

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• The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved to song, he can do nothing now, he must dig deeper.

  Jacques Maritain

  Song, Creative, Soul

  Jacques Maritain (1966). “Challenges and renewals: selected readings”

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