Quotes by Intuition Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists. Corliss Lamont philosopherintuitiondoe When I'm directing, I can look at something that I wrote and say, "This doesn't make sense." There's a lot more intuition and gut involved. Craig Zobel gutsintuitionlooks Well, intuition isn't much help in police work. Facts are what we need. Crane Wilbur police-workintuitionneeds I guess I consider myself at times to have intuition. Curtis Sittenfeld intuition If I'm writing by intuition, generally that calculation works itself out. But if I'm writing a mystery, and somebody has to have a reason for doing what he's doing, and it's not anything I can imagine myself wanting to do, things get a little more difficult to write, and careless mistakes are made. Cynthia Voigt intuitionmistakewriting What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. D. H. Lawrence instinctintuitiondesire The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body, on my intuitional consciousness, and when I get a response there, then I accept. D. H. Lawrence intuitionbodymind For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are. D. H. Lawrence intuitionstarsmind We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action. Daniel Kahneman intuitionpowerfulstrong Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don't decide to do it. We don't control it. Daniel Kahneman intuitionfeelingsideas You should not take your intuitions at face value. Daniel Kahneman intuitionshouldfaces I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past. Daniel Kahneman intuitionexpertspast When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition. Daniel Kahneman intuitiondecisionneeds An executive might have a very strong intuition that a given product has promise, without considering the probability that a rival is already ahead in developing the same product. Daniel Kahneman intuitionstrongpromise There are some conditions where you have to trust your intuition. Daniel Kahneman trust-your-intuitionconditionsintuition Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot. Daniel Tammet intuitionimportantneeds How lacking in intuition men could be in persuading themselves that mending some stranger's socks, and attending to his comfort, could content a woman. Daphne du Maurier intuitionmarriagemen The first 10 years, I was just building just to understand what I was doing and I didn't trust my intuition to just produce. Then, in the last five years, I have really been reflecting on what I am producing and what it is doing. David Adjaye intuitionyearsfirsts An axiomatic system comprises axioms and theorems and requires a certain amount of hand-eye coordination before it works. A formal system comprises an explicit list of symbols, an explicit set of rules governing their cohabitation, an explicit list of axioms, and, above all, an explicit list of rules explicitly governing the steps that the mathematician may take in going from assumptions to conclusions. No appeal to meaning nor to intuition. Symbols lose their referential powers; inferences become mechanical. David Berlinski intuitioneyehands Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. David Byrne intuitioncreativepeople«23456789101112»
