Quotes on Intuition

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.

Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. We will not solve the problems of the world from the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. More than anything else, this new century demands new thinking: We must change our materially based analyses of the world around us to include broader, more multidimensional perspectives.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.

You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.

And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here.

In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.

It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition.

Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.