"Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason."
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"The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason."
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"intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate"
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"It is not what the man of science believes that distinguishes him, but how and why he believes it. His beliefs are tentative, not dogmatic; they are based on evidence, not on authority or intuition."
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"Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response."
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"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
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"You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind."
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"Our task is to listen to the news that is always arriving out of silence."
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"Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart."
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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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"Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not."
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"For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness."
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"Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs."
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"Cease trying to work everything out with your minds, it will get you nowhere."
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"Often you have to rely on intuition."
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"There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact."
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"The only real valuable thing is intuition. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery"
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"Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often."
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"It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach."
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"The primary wisdom is intuition."
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