Intuition Quotes - Page 37

• As scientists the two men were contrasting types—Einstein all calculation, Rutherford all experiment ... There was no doubt that as an experimenter Rutherford was a genius, one of the greatest. He worked by intuition and everything he touched turned to gold. He had a sixth sense.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Men, Two, Doubt

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• Certainly the philosopher of 'possible worlds' must take care that his technical apparatus not push him to ask questions whose meaningfulness is not supported by our original intuitions of possibility that gave the apparatus its point.

  Saul Kripke

  World, Care, Philosopher

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• I use my intuition. I tell my students: use your brains, but also use another part of yourself.

  Jim Goldberg

  Brain, Use, Students

  "Photographer Jim Goldberg's best shot". Interview with Andrew Pulver, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2009.

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• Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.

  Christina Stead

  May, Messages, Infallible

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• The more we know, the better our intuitions.

  Christina Stead

  Knows

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

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lasts, Facts, Analysis

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• The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols.

  Carl Jung

  Reality, Psychics, Needs

  Carl Gustav Jung, Herbert Read, R. F.C. Hull (1954). “The practice of psychotherapy”, Bollingen

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• There is a conceptual depth as well as a purely visual depth. The first is discovered by science; the second is revealed in art. The first aids us in understanding the reasons of things; the second in seeing their forms. In science we try to trace phenomena back to their first causes, and to general laws and principles. In art we are absorbed in their immediate appearance, and we enjoy this appearance to the fullest extent in all its richness and variety. Here we are not concerned with the uniformity of laws but with the multiformity and diversity of intuitions.

  Ernst Cassirer

  Art, Science, Law

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• Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need.

  Crane Wilbur

  Police Work, Needs, Facts

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• Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything.

  David Lynch

  Keys, Joining Together, Painting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really.

  Katy Perry

  Careers, People, Vision

  Interview with Kristen Wiig, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2012.

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• The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.

  Terry Riley

  Writing, Player, Together

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• If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions.

  David K. Shipler

  Believe, Done, May

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• But the best read naturalist who lends an entire and devout attention to truth, will see that there remains much to learn of his relation to the world, and that it is not to be learned by any addition or subtraction or other comparison of known quantities, but is arrived at by untaught sallies of the spirit, by a continual self-recovery, and by entire humility.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Humility, Recovery

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2017). “The Best Read Naturalist": Nature Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.130, University of Virginia Press

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• Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

  Mason Cooley

  Sight, Smell, Reason

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• Be willing to take some risks in the areas of work and money. If we do only what we think we should do in order to make money and be secure, we won't listen to the intuitive voice that tells us to try something new, to be more creative, or to move on to the next step on our path. When we listen to our intuition and take some risks, we are not alone. The universe will support us and reward us for taking risks on its behalf!

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Thinking, Order

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• Intuition is often mistaken, but not altogether.

  Mason Cooley

  Mistaken

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• Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.

  Dennis Prager

  Book, Men, Needs

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• Marriage is not an institution, it is an intuition.

  Dorothy Richardson

  Institutions

  Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

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• Living in intention through acceptance, responsibility, pro-active choice, and the willingness to be ordinary, will move fear aside and allow intuition to surface. All of those skills teach us to be inner focused and aware of who we are becoming. That is powerful. That changes lives.

  Rhonda Britten

  Powerful, Life Changing, Moving

  Rhonda Britten (2002). “Fearless Living”, p.139, Penguin

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• Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical genius means an aptitude for discerning truth under appearances or in disguises which conceal it; for discovering it in spite of the errors of testimony, the frauds of tradition, the dust of time, the loss or alteration of texts. It is the sagacity of the hunter whom nothing deceives for long, and whom no ruse can throw off the trail.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Art, Mean, Loss

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• That is the real pivot of all bourgeois consciousness in all countries: fear and hate of the instinctive, intuitional, procreativebody in man or woman. But of course this fear and hate had to take on a righteous appearance, so it became moral, said that the instincts, intuitions and all the activities of the procreative body were evil, and promised a reward for their suppression. That is the great clue to bourgeois psychology: the reward business.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Country, Sex, Real

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8966, Delphi Classics

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• Decision-making is difficult because, by its nature, it involves uncertainty. If there was no uncertainty, decisions would be easy! The uncertainty exists because we don't know the future, we don't know if the decision we make will lead to the best possible outcome. Cognitive science has taught us that relying on our gut or intuition often leads to bad decisions, particularly in cases where statistical information is available. Our guts and our brains didn't evolve to deal with probabilistic thinking.

  Daniel Levitin

  Thinking, Decisions We Make, Taught Us

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• All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Religious, Men, Thinking

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• the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Discrepancies Between, Feelings, Intelligence

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