Intuition Quotes - Page 9

• We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it's creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Creativity, Needs, World

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• Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Journey, Innovation, Littles

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Fire from Within”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Brave, Wonderful, Enough

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• I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

  Princess Diana

  Instinct, Instinct Intuition

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• When your world falls apart and you're left with just yourself, you're forced to discover who you are without all the beliefs, expectations, views, & self-image provided by some teacher or system. The calculating mind gives way to the intuitive mind, Knowing without Thinking.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Teacher, Fall, Being Alone

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• If you have insight, you use your inner eye, your inner ear, to pierce to the heart of things, and have no need of intellectual knowledge.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Knowledge, Eye

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• For I now realize that what overcame me that evening was a sudden awareness of the power of intuition, the supra-logic that cuts out all routine processes of thought and leaps straight from problem to answer.

  Robert Graves

  Cutting, Routine, Answers

  "Poetic Craft and Principle: Lectures and Talks".

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• Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Instinct, Hunches, Clairvoyance

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• There is a knowingness that is as much a part of us as flesh and blood and bones. It's intuition, the deepest natural knowing. ... Intuition is the voice within forever pressing us to stretch ourselves, to take risks, to keep loving and giving birth to a new self, regardless of circumstances.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Blood, Voice, Knowing

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• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Giving, Mind

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

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• I never violate an inner rhythm. I loathe to force anything. I don't know if the inner rhythm is Eastern or Western. I know it is essential for me. I listen to it and I stay with it. I have always been this way. I have regards for the inner voice.

  Lee Krasner

  Voice, Essentials, Way

  Robert Carleton Hobbs, Lee Krasner (1993). “Lee Krasner”, Abbeville Press

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• Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye.

  Tom Hoover

  Eye, Hands, Mind

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• When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

  Angelina Jolie

  Trust, Trouble, Instinct

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• ...to make the world safe for democracy.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong Women, Tyrants, Differences

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1985). “Papers: Edited by Arthur S. Link and Others”

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• Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

  Robert Bresson

  Done, Ears, Ten

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• I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

  Jonas Salk

  Believe, Thinking, Sound

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• Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• There is no substitute for intuition.

  Paul Klee

  Substitutes

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• All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Science, Ideas

  "Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason".

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• Over time, you'll find that the more you trust your intuition and allow it to set your direction, the more you build that trust. Develop a habit of continually checking in with your intuition by asking yourself: Does this feel right to me?

  Lauren Mackler

  Doe, Asking, Habit

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• The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom is within all of us—it just needs to be discovered and developed, unfolded and actualized.

  Surya Das

  Wisdom, Reality, Meditation

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• Repose, leisure, peace, belong among the elements of happiness. If we have not escaped from harried rush, from mad pursuit, from unrest, from the necessity of care, we are not happy. And what of contemplation? Its very premise is freedom from the fetters of workaday busyness. Moreover, it itself actualizes this freedom by virtue of being intuition.

  Josef Pieper

  Mad, Unrest, Care

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• Every day people engaged in the clever defiance of their own intuition become, in midthought, victims of violence and accidents. So when we wonder why we are victims so often, the answer is clear: It is because we are so good at it.

  Gavin de Becker

  Clever, People, Answers

  Gavin De Becker (1998). “The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals that Protect Us from Violence”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Our own intuition of what we're called to is reality speaking to us individually and perfectly. We have to listen to how the Infinite talks to us and leads us. Reality, Life the Infinite, God, has a way of leading us in just the perfect way, if we will only just listen to it.

  Adyashanti

  Reality, Perfect, Way

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• The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Coaching, Method, Valuable

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