Intuition Quotes

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Knowledge has three degrees -- opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

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.

You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

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.

The theoretician believes in logic and believes that he despises dreams, intuition, and poetry. He does not recognize that these three fairies have only disguised themselves in order to dazzle him.... He does not know that he owes his greatest discoveries to them.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

I feel there are two people inside me -- me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.