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Anne Lamott Author, Essayist
Intuition

"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating."

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
Intuition

"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."

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Intuition

"Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept."

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"A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning. Through a series of intuitions, surmises, fancies, they stumble upon the right explanation, and have a knack of seizing it when it once comes within reach."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Intuition

"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."

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Kit Williams Author and Illustrator
Intuition

"If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have."

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Russell Kirk Political Theorist, Author
Intuition

"Prejudice is not bigotry or superstition, although prejudice sometimes may degenerate into these. Prejudice is pre-judgment, the answer with which intuition and ancestral consensus of opinion supply a man when he lacks either time or knowledge to arrive at a decision predicated upon pure reason."

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Carl Jung Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
Intuition

"Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations."

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