Intuition Quotes

It is amazing how many philosophers, scientists, writers, poets, artists and musicians throughout history tapped into their intuition for additional inspiration and insight for their works. Enjoy these quotes from many of the greats!

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. Johann Kaspar Lavater

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason. John Kord Lagemann

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge. René Descartes

Never ignore a gut feeling, but never believe that it's enough. Robert Heller

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock

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

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition. Honore De Balzac

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Florence Scovel Shinn

Often you have to rely on intuition. Bill Gates

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. John Naisbitt

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. Rudolph Arnheim

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. Henri Bergson

Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance. Albert Einstein

Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. Alexis Carrel

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Dr. Joyce Brothers

Knowledge has three degrees-opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. Plotinus

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Alexis Carrel

The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein

For whereas the mind works in possibilities, the intuitions work in actualities, and what you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. D.H. Lawrence

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right. Anonymous