Intuition Quotes

Most popular intuition quotes

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience. - Elbert Hubbard quote.
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our intuitions, corroborated by experience.

experience knowledge

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. - Albert Einstein quote.
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. - Henri Poincare quote.
It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover.

discovery logic

There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—call it intuition or what you will—and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap. - Albert Einstein quote.
There comes a point where the mind takes a leap—call it intuition or what you will—and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap.

discovery mind

I call intuition cosmic fishing.  You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish. - Buckminster Fuller quote.
I call intuition cosmic fishing.  You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish.
More than a burial ground for unacceptable ideas and wishes, the unconscious is the spawning ground of intuition and insight, the source of humor, of poetic imagery, and of scientific analogy.

subconscious

I have defined intuition as "perception via the unconscious." - Carl Jung quote.
I have defined intuition as "perception via the unconscious."

subconscious

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. - Anne Lamott quote.
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency. - George Jean Nathan quote.
What passes for woman's intuition is more often intrinsically nothing more than man's transparency.
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
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. - Immanuel Kant quote.
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.

knowledge

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. - Albert Einstein quote.
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

knowledge

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days. - Lao Tzu quote.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.