"Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience."
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"The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach"
"Love is the ark appointed for the righteous, Which annuls the danger and provides a way of escape. Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."
"General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise."
"Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind."
"I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you spend in the company of other human beings, you need "x" number of hours alone. Now, what "x" represents I don't really know; it might be two and seven-eighths or seven and two-eighths, but it is a substantial ratio."
"It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves."
"You've got to find the force inside you."
"Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom."
"My intuition is always on my side. I trust it to be there at all times."
"I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one."
"When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition."
"I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past."
"When we're in touch with our body, we're attuned to our intuition, needs, and desires and will be in the best position to make evolutionary choices for our health and wellbeing."
"I really don't know what's going to come out of my mouth."
"Instinct leads, logic does but follow."
"We're receiving information from all the planes of our consciousness all the time, but we don't acknowledge their existence; we treat the information as static, as noise."
"To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience, as joy, as being."
"Science is not an intelligence test. Intuition is important, knowing what kind of questions to ask. The other thing is a passion for getting to the core of the problem."
"We know nothing until intuition agrees."