(187 quotes found)
“'Healing,'' Papa would tell me, ''is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'”
W. H. Auden
“Because of their age long training in human relations for that is what feminine intuition really is women have a special contribution to make any group enterprise”
Margaret Mead
“The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgment is never just.”
D.H. Lawrence
“There are two types of minds - the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the dive”
Blaise Pascal
“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
Jonas Salk
“Faith is a passionate intuition.”
William Wordsworth
“All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.”
Alexis Carrel
“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 first step is an intuition and it comes with a burst, then difficulties arise - this thing gives out and then that - 'Bugs' - as such little faults and difficulties are called - show themselves, and months of intense watching, study and labor ar”
Thomas Alva Edison
“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
Rene Descartes
