Intuition Quotations | Page 6

To argue that the gaps in knowledge which confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.

Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence.

Reason is afraid of defeat, But intuition enjoys challenges

There are moments in life when we need to trust blindly in intuition

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge.

I know few significant questions of public policy which can safely be confided to computers. In the end, the hard decisions inescapably involve imponderables of intuition, prudence, and judgment.

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.

The primary wisdom is intuition.

As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-"Bugs"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached.

Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.

Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions.

Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour.

There are many virtues in books, but the essential value is the adding of knowledge to our stock by the record of new facts, and, better, by the record of intuitions which distribute facts, and are the formulas which supersede all histories.

The primary wisdom is intuition. In that deep force, the last fact behind which analysis cannot go, all things find their origin.

Proverbs, like the sacred books of each nation, are the sanctuary of the intuitions. That which the droning world, chained to appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.

He also knows the importance of intuition.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.

To become really good at anything,you have to practice and repeat, practice and repeat, until the technique becomes intuitive

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

You've got to find the force inside you.

We are having experiences all the time which may on occasion render some sense of this, a little intuition of where your bliss is. Grab it. No one can tell you what it is going to be. You have to learn to recognize your own depth.

We know nothing until intuition agrees.

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into 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. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life.

Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the fullness of being, that seeks to rest in an intuition of the very ground of all being. Without wisdom, the apparent opposition of action and contemplation, of work and rest, of involvement and detachment, can never be resolved.

There is no prescribed route to follow to arrive at a new idea. You have to make the intuitive leap.

Backlock, a poet blind from his birth, could describe visual objects with accuracy; Professor Sanderson, who was also blind, gave excellent lectures on color, and taught others the theory of ideas which they had and he had not. In the social sphere these gifted ones are mostly women; they can watch a world which they never saw, and estimate forces of which they have only heard. We call it intuition.

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

Be governed by your internal compass, not by some clock on the wall.

Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.

Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition.

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

Much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition.

A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.