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Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.

Leonard Mlodinow

I design from instinct. It's the only way I know how to live. What feels good. What feels right. What is needed. Give me a problem and I will approach it creatively, from my gut.

Donna Karan

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Blaise Pascal

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

Be willing to trust your instincts, especially if you cannot find answers elsewhere.

Brian Koslow

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Carl Jung

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Arnold Bennett

Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.

Barbara Corcoran

Just trust your intuition and beware of outsiders.

Cordae

By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

Tabatha Coffey

Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.

Patanjali

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

Corliss Lamont

The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

Gisele Bundchen

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Don Marquis

People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory.

Eric Schmidt

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

D. H. Lawrence

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Francis Bacon

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Rouben Mamoulian

Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

Robert Greene

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Nikola Tesla

My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

Ellen Willis

It's amazing how unwilling most people are to admit they don't know the answer to a question or a problem and instead charge forward on a 'gut instinct' that turns out to be crap.

Stephen J. Dubner

Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift.

Minna Antrim

I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.

Dennis Skinner

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

James Thurber

Faith is a passionate intuition.

William Wordsworth

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

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.

Immanuel Kant

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Lao Tzu

Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence.

Bryant H. McGill

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Henri Poincare

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Henri Bergson

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

Jane Roberts

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

John Naisbitt

There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment.

Shakti Gawain

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

John Sterling

Never do anything that you dont instinctively feel comfortable with. Always trust your instincts.

Robson Green

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Charles Darwin

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Oprah Winfrey

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

Joseph Joubert

I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Clyde Tombaugh

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

Peter Mullan

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

Carl Jung

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action.

Krista Tippett

I always trust my gut reaction; it's always right.

Kiana Tom

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.

Rene Descartes

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Aristotle

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Marilyn Monroe