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• It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

  Henri Poincare

  Creativity, Science, Intuition

  "Atlas of the Poetic Continent: Pathways in Ecological Citizenship". Book by Shelley Sacks, Wolfgang Zumdick, p. 60, 2013.

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• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Thinking, Psychics

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• My hunch is that probably men are doing more both outside the home and inside the home

  James Levine

  Home, Men

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

  E. Michael Burke

  Success, Teacher, Appreciation

  "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Perception, Intuition

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• The covetous man is like a camel with a great hunch on his back; heaven's gate must be made Higher and broader, or he will hardly get in.

  Thomas Adams

  Men, Heaven, Camels

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 167, 1895.

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• [Entrepreneurship] is by no means hunch or gamble. But it also is not precisely science. Rather, it is judgment.

  Peter Drucker

  Mean, Judgment, Entrepreneurship

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Innovation and Entrepreneurship”, p.228, Routledge

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• Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

  Dean Koontz

  Thinking, Information, Messages

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• Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Inspiration, Ideas, Giving

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• When we seek a textbook case for the proper operation of science, the correction of certain error offers far more promise than the establishment of probable truth. Confirmed hunches, of course, are more upbeat than discredited hypotheses. Since the worst traditions of "popular" writing falsely equate instruction with sweetness and light, our promotional literature abounds with insipid tales in the heroic mode, although tough stories of disappointment and loss give deeper insight into a methodology that the celebrated philosopher Karl Popper once labeled as "conjecture and refutation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Disappointment, Writing, Loss

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History”, p.437, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Feelings, Intuition, Criticism

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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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, Intuition, Routine

  "Poetic Craft and Principle: Lectures and Talks".

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• The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.

  Isaac Asimov

  Intuition, Mind, Twenties

  Isaac Asimov (1986). “Foundation Trilogy”, Del Rey

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

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Thinking, Perception, Intuition

  Rudolf Arnheim (2004). “Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye”, p.5, Univ of California Press

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• If you deny yourself access to the child within because you're too serious, you also block your connection to the divine Light and your feminine self. Every creator who's any good uses their feminine side to create with.. Whether a scientist working on a hunch, a painter working on the interplay of colors, or a musician dealing with the juxtaposition of notes and chords.

  Stuart Wilde

  Children, Block, Light

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• It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner.

  Jonas Salk

  Morning, Sea, Psychics

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• I have a hunch that the unknown sequences of DNA will decode into copyright notices and patent protections.

  Donald Knuth

  Science, Dna, Patents

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• Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.

  Audre Lorde

  Knowledge, Emotional, Feelings

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.91, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My hunch is that people often affiliate with causes online for selfish and narcissistic purposes. Sometimes, it may be as simple as trying to impress their online friends, and once you have fashioned that identity, there is very little reason to actually do anything else.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Selfish, Simple, People

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• Reality is just a collective hunch.

  Jane Wagner

  Reality, Collectives

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• As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch it would have happened pretty soon. I loved the world, its beauty and bigness as well as its smallness.

  Douglas Coupland

  World, Wonder, Lost

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