Quotes about Intuition

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

The human race, in its intellectual life, is organized like the bees: the masculine soul is a worker, sexually atrophied, and essentially dedicated to impersonal and universal arts; the feminine is queen, infinite fertile, omnipresent in its brooding industry, but passive and abounding in intuitions without method and passions without justice.

Art - Dedication - Femininity - Fertility - Human - Industry - Intuition - Judging - Mankind - Masculinity - Organizing - Passion - Passive - Sexuality - Soul - Universal - Work

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

By a generative grammar I mean simply a system of rules that in some explicit and well-defined way assigns structural descriptions to sentences. Obviously, every speaker of a language has mastered and internalized a generative grammar that expresses his knowledge of his language. This is not to say that he is aware of the rules of the grammar or even that he can become aware of them, or that his statements about his intuitive knowledge of the language are necessarily accurate.

Accuracy - Intuition - Linguistics - Meaning - Speaking - Wellness

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Neale Donald Walsch

Writer, Author, Author

The more that you act on your intuition fearlessly, the more your intuition will serve you. Intuition is the ear of the soul.

Intuition - Soul

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Daniel Kahneman

Psychologist, Economist

Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors.

Creativity - Finding - Intuition - Loss - Operation - Performance - Vigilance

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Novelist, Scientist, Astrophysicist

For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains.

Advantage - Brain - Intuition - Magic - Taking

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

The true spiritual secret is this: what you seek, you already are. True success is discovering your inner divinity~ it's the ability to love and have compassion, trust your intuition, and awaken to your unlimited creative nature.

Ability - Compassion - Creativity - Discovery - Intuition - Secrets - Spiritual

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

Whenever we need to make a very important decision it is best to trust our instincts, because reason usually tries to remove us from our dream, saying that the time is not yet right. Reason is afraid of defeat, but intuition enjoys life and its challenges.

Challenge - Decision - Defeat - Enjoying - Instinct - Intuition - Reason - Trial

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Blaise Pascal

Mathematician, Physicist, Inventor, Theologian

Il y a deux sortes d'esprits, l'un ge ome trique, et l'autre que l'on peut appeler de finesse. Le premier a des vues lentes, dures et inflexibles; mais le dernier a une souplesse de pense e. There are two kinds of mind, one mathematical, the other what one might call the intuitive. The first takes a slow, firm, inflexible view, but the latter has flexibility of thought.

Intuition - Kindness - Mathematics - Mindset

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Jean Rostand

Novelist, Scientist, Biologist

When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.

Future - Intuition - Misunderstanding - Perspective - Prophecy - Science - Someday - Truth

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Adyashanti

Spiritual Teacher, Author

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.

Intuition - Perfection - Reality

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Edmund Burke

Statesman, Philosopher

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Fame - Instinct - Intuition - Passion - Soul

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E. O. Wilson

Biologist, Naturalist, Author

Science needs the intuition and metaphorical power of the arts, and the arts need the fresh blood of science ... Interpretation is the logical channel of consilient explanation between science and the arts. The arts ... also nourish our craving for the mystical.

Art - Atheism - Explanation - Interpretation - Intuition - Mysticism

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Carl Jung

Psychiatrist, Psychoanalist, Founder of Analytical Psychology

Astrology is one of the intuitive methods like the I Ching, geomantics, and other divinatory procedures. It is based upon the synchronicity principle, meaningful coincidence. ... Astrology is a naively projected psychology in which the different attitudes and temperaments of man are represented as gods and identified with planets and zodiacal constellations.

Intuition - Man - Planet - Principle

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Laozi

Philosopher

A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.

Art - Instinct - Intuition - Wants

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Spiritual leader

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

Intuition - Meditation

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Albert Einstein

Theoretical Physicist

Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena.

Intuition - Meaning

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Florence Scovel Shinn

Activist, Artist, Writer

Never do today what intuition says to do tomorrow.

Intuition

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Deepak Chopra

Actor, Philosopher, Author

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks show us how to discover the secrets to healing, love, intuition and insight.

Gay - Healing - Insight - Intuition - Secrets - Show

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Leader, Philosopher, Writer

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

Intuition

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’

Boredom - Excitement - Intuition - Surprise - Thinking - Writing

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