Intuition & Instinct Quotes

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

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.

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

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Just trust your intuition and beware of outsiders.

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.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The intuition of free will gives us the truth.

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.

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.

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

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

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.