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“What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophesy or as poesy...should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open up new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth.”

“The physics of motion provides one of the clearest examples of the counter-intuitive and unexpected nature of science.”

Example Physics Unexpected Intuitive

Author:Lewis Wolpert

“Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.”

Order Effort Design Conscious Tools Meaningful Intuitive

Author:Victor Papanek

“When your mind is functioning correctly, there is an out streaming of light from within in the form of inspiration, hunches, leadings, and intuitive flashes - trust this process of inspiration. “In the twinkling of an eye” ideas and plans may flow into your mind.”

Mind May Ideas Light Inspiration Eye Form Process Plans Flow Flash Intuitive Streaming Hunches Twinkling

Author:Eric Butterworth

“Tantra means the avoidance of a set or defined form of spirituality. Tantra is intuitive self-discovery.”

Mean Self Philosophy Form Spirituality Discovery Self Discovery Defined Intuitive Avoidance Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.”

Giving Term Silence Atheism Insight Positive Atheism Rational Rooted Intuitive Meaning Life

Author:Karen Armstrong

“I like the process of giving control away [at the recording]. When you give it up to people, it's another intelligent organism that digests your information completely differently from how a machine digests information. It's like you're on a sailboat, and every time you can find out how to better adjust [the sail] to make it more precise. And it's interesting to see that the musicians have their own ideas. To use their intuitive power with their knowledge that they incorporate into the music. This is the moment you give away control, you give it to someone else's intuition.”

People Giving Ideas Moments Use Process Interesting Information Like You Musician Machines Intelligent Intuition Sail Organisms Precise Intuitive Sailboat

Author:Pantha du Prince

“Creative ideas come to the intuitive person who can face up to the insecurity of looking beyond the obvious.”

Persons Ideas Faces Creative Obvious Insecurity Intuitive Creative Ideas

Author:Walter Lippmann

“Touch is one of the most intuitive things in the world.”

World Intuitive

Author:Jefferson Han

“We have an intuitive sense of our duty.”

Author:Jonathan Swift

“[On being asked how many Mrs. Thatchers there were:] Oh, three at least. There is the intellectual one, the intuitive one and the one at home.”

Home Three Intellectual Intuitive Mrs Thatcher

Author:Margaret Thatcher

“The sense of beauty is intuitive, and beauty itself is all that inspires pleasure without, and aloof from, and even contrarily to interest.”

Interest Pleasure Beauty Inspire Intuitive Aloof

Book:The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters (Classic Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of the English poet, literary critic and philosopher, including The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Lyrical Ballads, Conversation Poems and Biographia Literaria

“The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.”

School Faces Language Taught Intuitive Observant Physiognomy

Author:Julia Ward Howe

“Quantum mechanics is so counter-intuitive, physicists have never been able to come up with a comfortable picture of how it works.”

Able Religion Comfortable Come Up Quantum Mechanic Physicist Intuitive Quantum Mechanics

Author:Taner Edis

“cut off from the intuitive knowledge of ontological reason, technical knowledge is directionless and ultimately meaningless. When it dominates, life is deprived of an experience of depth, and it tends toward despair.”

Reason Life Is Knowledge Cutting Despair Depth Meaningless Intuitive Deprived Technical Knowledge

Book:Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

Source: Beyond God the Father: toward a philosophy of women's liberation

“In my own research when I'm working with equations, I never feel like I really understand what I'm doing if I'm solely relying on the mathematics for my understanding. I need to have a visual picture in my mind. I'm constantly translating from the math to some intuitive mind's-eye picture.”

Ifs Needs Feels Mind Eye Understanding My Own Research Mathematics Math Visuals Translate Equations Intuitive

Author:Brian Greene

“Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.”

Children Use Example Direct Maxims Intuitive Discernment

Book:The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

Source: The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld: In Two Volumes

“Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.”

Giving Looks Self Certain Wonder Gone Exercise Intuition Rational Bother Abstract Characteristics Abandon Reign Insects Intuitive Cognitive

Author:Jane Goodall

“I became intensely aware of the being-ness of trees. The feel of rough sun-warmed bark of an ancient forest giant, or the cool, smooth skin of a young and eager sapling, gave me a strange, intuitive sense of the sap as it was sucked up by unseen roots and drawn up to the very tips of the branches, high overhead.”

Feels Young Sun Tree Strange Roots Skins Ancient Forests Giants Branches Rough Smooth Unseen Intuitive Bark Sap Overhead Saplings Smooth Skin

Author:Jane Goodall

“I run my company according to feminine principles, principles of caring, making intuitive decisions, not getting hung up on hierarchy or all those dreadfully boring business-school management ideas; having a sense of work as being part of your life, not separate from it; putting your labor where your love is; being responsible to the world in how you use your profits; recognizing the bottom line should stay at the bottom.”

“There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.”

Looks Character Blood Missing Development Drama Focused Opening Storytelling Impulse Epic Intuitive Sequence Terrific Character Development

Author:Stephanie Zacharek

“Witches try to 'connect' with the world around them. Witchcraft, they say, is about the tactile, intuitive understanding of the turn of the seasons, the song of the birds; it is the awareness of all things as holy.”

World Trying Song Turns Understanding Nature Awareness Holy Bird All Things Seasons Oneness Holiness Witch Intuitive Witchcraft Tactile

Author:Tanya Luhrmann

“Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.”

Thinking Knows Writing Moving Approach Claims Rational Intuitive Back And Forth

Author:Peter Turchi

“Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive consciousness using our rational mind—any more than we can grasp our own hand or see our own eye.”

Mind Facts Hands Eye Consciousness Impossible Taught Intuition Rational Intuitive Manipulate Rational Thought

Author:Tom Hoover

“Zen is based on the recognition of two incompatible types of thought: rational and intuitive.”

Two Type Rational Recognition Intuitive

Author:Tom Hoover

“Different portions of the brain all look for information (sexual, intuitive, practical), through modes so torturous, a first date can feel like a cross between having a pelvic examination while applying for a small business loan. First dates should require anesthesia, and in some states they do.”

Feels Should Firsts Looks Different States Brain Information Crosses Dating Practicals Portions Small Business Intuitive Loan Examination First Date Anesthesia

Book:How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

Source: How to Be a Middle-Aged Babe

“It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.”

“I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.”

Knows Should Moments Character Quality Practice Awareness Importance Response Photographer Obvious Mediums Dedication Intuitive

Author:Ansel Adams

“If we live in our oneness-heart, we will feel the essence of all religions, which is love of God. But if we live in the mind, we will only try to separate one religion from another and see how their ideologies differ. It is the heart that can have a true intuitive understanding of the height and breadth of all religions. It is the heart that sees and feels the inner harmony and oneness of all religions.”

Ifs Feels Trying Mind Heart Understanding Essence Harmony Ideology Oneness God Love Height Intuitive Breadth

Book:Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

“History or custom or social utility or some compelling sense of justice or sometimes perhaps a semi-intuitive apprehension of the pervading spirit of our law must come to the rescue of the anxious judge and tell him where to go.”

Sometimes Law Spirit Social Justice Judging Customs Anxious Rescue Compelling Intuitive Utility Apprehension

Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“I think that the board is a lot more intuitive than people assume. You get on it and all you have to do is put one foot on the tail and one foot on the nose and rock it up and down and that will get you into the tricks or wheelies or manuals. It's not about the balance so much as it is about the timing.”

People Thinking Feet Rocks Balance Down And Assuming Tricks Noses Boards Timing Tails Intuitive Up And Down Manuals

Author:Tony Hawk

“Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.”

Giving Ability Careers Too Much Information Lifetime Coaches Intuitive Too Much Information

Author:Tiffeny Milbrett

“The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.”

Feels Children Joy Animal Source Members Connections Species Pet Unconditional Love Contrast Intuitive Unconditional Artifice Dealings

Author:Frans de Waal

“People don't have a good intuitive sense of how to weigh new information in light of what they already know. They tend to overrate it.”

People Knows Light Information Intuitive New Information

Author:Nate Silver

“Kids are much more intuitive these days. Not that I'm crazy about what's on TV, but they know so much these days.”

Knows Kids Crazy Tvs These Days Intuitive

Author:Joe Torre

“Knew I how to pray, to intercede for your [broken] Foot were intuitive - but I am but a Pagan.”

Feet Atheism Broken Praying Positive Atheism Intuitive Pagan

Author:Emily Dickinson

“Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work.”

Ifs Writing Mind Done Helping Shows Process Hours Saws Comedy Intellectual Performing Intuitive Athletic Databases

Author:Stephen Colbert

“We shouldn't ignore any guidance that comes from the mind - we should listen to our minds AND balance mental messages with intuitive messages. We need both to navigate our way through life.”

Way Needs Should Mind Balance Messages Guidance Intuitive Navigate

Author:Shakti Gawain

“The Epson M-Tracer provides real-time feedback and immediate solutions that help golfers develop a more efficient and powerful swing. This information empowers golfers to improve their swing in an easy and intuitive manner, ultimately resulting in lower scores and more fun.”

Real Helping Fun Easy Powerful Information Solutions Empowering Score Efficient Swings Intuitive Feedback Golfers

Author:David Leadbetter

“Ezra Pound still lives in a village and his world is a kind of village and people keep explaining things when they live in a village.... I have come not to mind if certain people live in villages and some of my friends still appear to live in villages and a village can be cozy as well as intuitive but must one really keep perpetually explaining and elucidating?”

People Ifs World Mind Wells Kind Stills Certain My Friends Pounds Village Intuitive Explaining Cozy Still Life Explaining Things

Author:Gertrude Stein

“The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.”

Men World Love Doe Failing Written Human Nature Mouths Capacity Abandon Intuitive One Love World History Mislead Word Of Mouth

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“When I worked on the polio vaccine, I had a theory. I guided each [experiment] by imagining myself in the phenomenon in which I was interested. The intuitive realm . . . the realm of the imagination guides my thinking.”

Thinking Imagination Theory Guides Experiments Realms Phenomenon Intuitive Vaccines Polio Polio Vaccine

Author:Jonas Salk

“All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.”

Two Whole Humor Funny Culture Taken Four Wife China My Wife Bottles Lamps Intuitive Donkey Condiments Chianti

Author:Peter Shaffer

“Be willing to take some risks in the areas of work and money. If we do only what we think we should do in order to make money and be secure, we won't listen to the intuitive voice that tells us to try something new, to be more creative, or to move on to the next step on our path. When we listen to our intuition and take some risks, we are not alone. The universe will support us and reward us for taking risks on its behalf!”

Source: Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations

“In mathematics ... we find two tendencies present. On the one hand, the tendency towards abstraction seeks to crystallise the logical relations inherent in the maze of materials ... being studied, and to correlate the material in a systematic and orderly manner. On the other hand, the tendency towards intuitive understanding fosters a more immediate grasp of the objects one studies, a live rapport with them, so to speak, which stresses the concrete meaning of their relations.”

Two Hands Speak Understanding Study Objects Materials Stress Relation Mathematics Tendencies Logical Concrete Inherent Abstraction Intuitive Systematic Orderly Mazes Rapport

Author:David Hilbert

“... in a capitalist society a man is expected to be an aggressive, uncompromising, factual, lusty, intelligent provider of goods,and the woman, a retiring, gracious, emotional, intuitive, attractive consumer of goods.”

Men Emotional Capitalism Intelligent Expected Consumers Attractive Goods Aggressive Retiring Capitalist Intuitive Gracious Factual Providers Uncompromising

Author:Toni Cade Bambara

“Fantasy is a product of thought, Imagination of sensibility. If the thinking, discursive mind turns to speculation, the result isFantasy; if, however, the sensitive, intuitive mind turns to speculation, the result is Imagination. Fantasy may be visionary, but it is cold and logical. Imagination is sensuous and instinctive. Both have form, but the form of Fantasy is analogous to Exposition, that of Imagination to Narrative.”

Ifs Thinking Mind May Form Turns Imagination Results Fantasy Products Cold Narrative Sensitive Logical Sensibility Speculation Intuitive Visionaries Sensuous

Author:Herbert Read

“While we somehow understand revenge on an intuitive level between individuals, I do suspect that companies, assuming that people are rational, completely miss and underestimate the motivation people have for revenge.”

People Motivation Individual Levels Company Missing Assuming Revenge Rational Suspects Underestimate Intuitive

Author:Dan Ariely

“Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.”

Ifs Knows Way Doe Happens Judging Judgment Perception Intuition Intellect Imperfection Intuitive Cognition

Book:Philosophical Writings: A Selection

Source: Philosophical Writings: A Selection

“It may be true that only those minds which are habituated to think logically can safely trust their intuitive conclusions, on the theory that the subconscious level will do its kind of work as faithfully as the conscious does its kind.”

Thinking Mind Kind May Doe Levels Theory Conscious Conclusion Being True Subconscious Intuitive

Book:In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963

Source: In defense of tradition: collected shorter writings of Richard M. Weaver, 1929-1963