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Rollo May Psychologist, Author
Intuition

"It is amazing how many hints and guides and intuitions for living come to the sensitive person who has ears to hear what his body is saying."

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Immanuel Kant Philosopher
Intuition

"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."

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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Intuition

"For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. Whereas what you mentally or "consciously" desire is nine times out of ten impossible; hitch your wagon to a star, or you will just stay where you are."

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Charles Faulkner Psychologist, Author
Intuition

"The novice trader is at a disadvantage because the intuitions that he is going to have about the market are going to be the ones that are typical of beginners. The expert is someone who sees beyond those typical responses and has an understanding of the deeper workings of the market."

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Charles Faulkner Psychologist, Author
Intuition

"For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience."

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Aldous Huxley Novelist, Essayist
Intuition

"The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing."

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Ted Allen Chef
Intuition

"One of the smartest things you can do on 'Chopped' is to take one of those ingredients and make a pickle out of it, because almost every dish benefits from that. I'm feeling like those intuitions are becoming more natural."

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Stephen King Author
Intuition

"I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer."

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Robert Winston Physicist and Science Communicator
Intuition

"Although religion might be useful in developing a solid moral framework - and enforcing it - we can quite easily develop moral intuitions without relying on religion."

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