Quotes by category:Intuition

The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

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Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know by Ina May Gaskin

Ask the woman, she will tell you everything you need to know

intuition knows needs

You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts a... by Immanuel Kant

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

philosophical intuition blind

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

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Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.

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Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

Honore de Balzac

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Conventional measures of mental ability, such as intelligence tests and scholarship, show some of the very highest records belong to INFP and INFJ types, who relegate thinking to last place or next to last. The preference for thinking appears to have far less intellectual effect than the preference for intuition, even in some technical fields, such as scientific research, where its influence was expected to be most important.

Isabel Briggs Myers

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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

intuition character thinking

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. by Isabelle Adjani

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

Isabelle Adjani

natural-instinct intuition today

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

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Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is bl... by Immanuel Kant

Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.

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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a correct conclusion and unable to accept the fact that she is your equal or superior in intelligence, you invent something called feminine intuition.

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Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

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A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient and meticulous adjustments and an intuition so instantaneous that, when formulated, it acquires the finality of something that could never have been otherwise. But it is also the rhythm of time that passes with no other aim than to let feelings and thoughts settle down, mature, and shed all impatience or ephemeral contingency.

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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

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As you see, I do not treat the creation of fiction, that to say the invention and development of fantasies,as a form of abstract thought. I dont wish to deny the uses of the intellect,but sometimes one has the intuition that the intellect by itself will lead one nowhere.

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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.

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It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition... by Isaac Asimov

It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word "intuition.

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Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. by J. C. Ryle

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.