Quotes about Intuition
Relax!" old Ben urged him. "Be free. You're trying to use your eyes and ears. Stop predicting and use the rest of your mind.
— George Lucas
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
Keep your "antennae" out to pick up even the faintest glimmer of My Presence.
— Sarah Young
So it shows that for all the brag you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instink is worth forty of it for real unerringness. Jim says the same.
— Mark Twain
One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.
— Mark Twain
Some instinct tells me that eternal vigilance is the price of supremacy.
— Mark Twain
I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone.
— Mark Twain
But a girl always knows.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Moreover, she is intellectually short-sighted, for although her intuitive understanding quickly perceives what is near to her, on the other hand her circle of vision is limited and does not embrace anything that is remote; hence everything that is absent or past, or in the future, affects women in a less degree than men. This is why they have greater inclination for extravagance, which sometimes borders on madness.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Judge the spirit of the prophecy before you judge the truth of the word.
— Graham Cooke
Anne always said that Esme Dalley had an iron will under all her sweetness and the doctor had a great deal of respect for the intuition of his wife.
— LM Montgomery