Intuition Quotes - Page 24

• Every discovery contains an irrational element or a creative intuition.

  Karl Popper

  Discovery, Creative, Elements

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.8, Routledge

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• If you let it, the noise of the world will drown out the voice of God, which is your intuition.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Voice, World, Noise

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• There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Age, Sides

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• [The essences of things] are suspended on the invisible dimension whose vibrance has been denied the human eye at all times save in the intuition of ecstasy.

  Hart Crane

  Eye, Essence, Dimensions

  Hart Crane (1965). “Letters, 1916-1932”

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• I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the intuition and the imagination and the quiet voice inside my head that says: isn't that extraordinary? The things in our lives are the shadows of reality, just as we ourselves are shadows.

  Duane Michals

  Believe, Reality, Quiet Voice

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• One of the principles that we operate on in this country is that leaders are held accountable. The simple truth is that we went into Iraq on the basis of some intuition, some fear, and some exaggerated rhetoric and some very, very scanty evidence.

  Wesley Clark

  Country, Simple, Iraq

  "Gen. Wesley Clark: Iraq war based on 'misjudgment'". Interview with Aaron Brown, www.cnn.com. August 15, 2003.

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

  William Blake

  Identity, Harmony, Invention

  William Blake, David V. Erdman, Harold Bloom (1982). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.659, Univ of California Press

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• Her professors were astonished by her leaps of thought, by the finesse and elegance of her insights. She arrived at hypotheses by sheer intuition and with what eventually one of her mentors described as an almost alarming speed; she was like a dancer, he said, out in the cosmos springing weightlessly from star to star. Drones, merely brilliant, crawled along behind with laborious proofs that supported her assertions.

  Deborah Eisenberg

  Stars, Dancer, Mentor

  Deborah Eisenberg (2016). “Twilight of the Superheroes”, p.36, Pan Macmillan

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• But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.

  Anne Tyler

  Thinking, People, Advice

  Anne Tyler (1991). “Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels”, Outlet

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• Man will have replicated his own intelligence not when he teaches a computer to reason but when he teaches a computer to have a nagging feeling in its circuits.

  Robert Breault

  Men, Feelings, Nagging

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique andconsequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

  Henri Bergson

  Unique, Order, Analysis

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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• Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.

  Ada Leverson

  Women, Quality, Feminine

  Ada Leverson (1962). “The little Ottleys: Love's shadow. Tenterhooks. Love at second sight”

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• It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition.

  Northrop Frye

  Block, Emotional, Thinking

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.83, Princeton University Press

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• The best way I have found to follow my true desires is to pay attention to my intuitive sense. We all have great wisdom within us, a part of us that knows exactly what we need at every moment. We are born with this intuitive sense, but most of us are quickly taught to distrust and ignore it. We have to relearn something that should come naturally. Fortunately, it's not too difficult; it just takes some practice.

  Shakti Gawain

  Practice, Desire, Taught

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• My crystal ball or intuition tells me that in the '80s the impact of RIA [radioimmunoassay] on the study of infectious diseases may prove as revolutionary as its impact on endocrinology in the 60s.

  Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

  Impact, Balls, May

  "A Probe For Fine Structure Of Biologic Systems". Rosalyn Sussman Yalow's Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden, December 8, 1977.

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• I consider a merchant someone who has a certain intuition and instinct, and - very important - knows how to run a business, knows the numbers.

  Millard Drexler

  Running, Numbers, Important

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• One must speak for a struggle for a new culture, that is, for a new moral life that cannot but be intimately connected to a new intuition of life, until it becomes a new way of feeling and seeing reality

  Antonio Gramsci

  Struggle, Reality, Feelings

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• Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away.

  Natalie Imbruglia

  Philosophy, Walks

  Song: Intuition, Album: Left of the Middle, 1997

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• The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Art, Today, Limits

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• Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

  Dino De Laurentiis

  Actors, Scripts, Taught

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• Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Hard Work, Writing, Errors

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• Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Psychics, Meditation

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• Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.

  Richard Pascale

  War, Knowledge, Learning

  Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press

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• What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Desire, Instinct, Instinct Intuition

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2004). “D. H. Lawrence: Late Essays and Articles”, p.206, Cambridge University Press

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• I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth.

  Bill Murray

  Mouths, Knows

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