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Sophocles Playwright, Philosopher
Intuition

"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"

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Rumi Poet, Philosopher
Intuition

"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."

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Glenn Gould Pianist
Intuition

"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."

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Joseph Warren Physician, Patriot
Intuition

"Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom."

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Daniel Kahneman Psychologist, Nobel Laureate
Intuition

"I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past."

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Deepak Chopra Author, Speaker
Intuition

"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."

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Ram Dass Spiritual Teacher, Author
Intuition

"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."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
Intuition

"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."

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Torsten Wiesel Neuroscientist
Intuition

"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."

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