Intuition Quotes
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It's not as simple as that. Knowledge is necessary, too. An intuitive child couldn't accomplish anything without some knowledge. There will come a point in everyone's life, however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why, but one must accept intuition as a fact.
Albert Einstein
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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work.
Cheryl Strayed
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The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.
Idries Shah
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Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
William of Occam
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Some people say there's nothing new under the sun. I still think that there's room to create, you know. And intuition doesn't necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
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Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
Oprah Winfrey
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The really valuable method of thought to arrive at a logically coherent system is intuition.
Albert Einstein
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Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.
Lucille Clifton
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For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don't know where that came from. Because I don't have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction.
David Carson
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Feminine intuition, a quality perhaps even rarer in women than in men.
Ada Leverson
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I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.
Brian May Queen
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I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it's a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me.
Elif Safak
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Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.
Rachel Cusk
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Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling.
Ann Cotton
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
Margery Allingham
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Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.
Rita Mae Brown
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Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
Jose Ferreira
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Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
Fred Frith Aksak Maboul
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I've always been in rock bands. I was in a rock band with my brother in high school. Then I was playing classical guitar recitals, and people said, 'You know, you can't really do both things.' My intuition told me they were wrong. Somehow, what was interesting about me was that I had those two things in my life.
Bryce Dessner The National
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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word 'intuition.'
Isaac Asimov
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Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Anthony J. D'Angelo
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The important discovery I made very early is that my novels had to be written without any given plan or outline. I can't do it in any other way. But then they are dependent on the sentences, my intuition, and, as I have experienced many times, the subconscious.
Per Petterson
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The fact that human intuition is ill suited to situations involving uncertainty was known as early as the 1930's, when researchers noted that people could neither make up a sequence of numbers that passed mathematical tests for randomness nor recognize reliably whether a given string was randomly generated.
Leonard Mlodinow