Welcome to our collection of Intuition Quotes, where we delve into the profound wisdom surrounding the enigmatic force of intuition. Intuition, often described as the ability to understand something instinctively without the need for conscious reasoning, holds a mysterious yet powerful place in our lives. Throughout history, thinkers, philosophers, artists, and leaders have celebrated the significance of intuition in guiding decisions, sparking creativity, and uncovering truths that may elude rational analysis.
In this curated selection of quotes, you’ll encounter diverse perspectives on intuition from a range of voices across cultures and epochs. From ancient sages to modern-day visionaries, each quote offers a glimpse into the depth and complexity of human intuition. Whether you seek inspiration, validation, or simply a deeper understanding of this intrinsic aspect of human experience, these quotes are sure to enlighten and provoke thought. So, without further ado, explore the wisdom of the ages as we unravel the mysteries of intuition.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies. Rem Koolhaas
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation. Eileen Caddy
My dad’s a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity – intuition and compassion and tenderness – and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved. Carlos Santana
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you’re gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can’t do parenting right. Alan Arkin
At a certain point, I felt the need to submit to a higher level of religiosity… to move away from my intuition and to accept an ultimate truth. I felt that in order to become a good person, I needed rules – lots of them – or else I would somehow fall apart. I am reclaiming myself. Trusting my goodness and my divine mission. Matisyahu
That is what the intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
For some, the belief in a Young Earth seems to be based on a kind of intuition or faith in what they believe an omnipotent God should do. It reasons that if God is all powerful, then certainly He would not have taken millions of years to make the earth. Norman Geisler
To love a person is to know and love the person. But we can pick up an enormous amount about another human being just by exchanging a couple of sentences. It’s not yet knowledge; it’s an intuition that motivates you to want to find out more. Nathaniel Branden
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become. Gisele Bundchen
As hackneyed and cliche as it sounds, follow your heart. We are all given intuition and instincts, and sometimes it is hard to follow those instincts with the fears and pressures that surround us – but you have to do it. Michael Feinstein
Just trust your intuition and beware of outsiders. Cordae
Raising children uses every bit of your being – your heart, your time, your patience, your foresight, your intuition to protect them, and you have to use all of this while trying to figure out how to discipline them. Nicole Ari Parker
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. Graham Hancock
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can’t fold a paper in a crowded train. Phyllis McGinley
There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. Shakti Gawain
Faith is a passionate intuition. William Wordsworth
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve Jobs
Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition. Freeman Thomas
The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just. D. H. Lawrence
Intuition is reason in a hurry. Holbrook Jackson
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Alexis Carrel
I think the key as a creator is to just trust your own intuition, and follow your passion and trust that if you make something you love, an audience who loves it will find it. Alex Hirsch
I don’t think we’re all going to be mediums but I do think we all have a sixth sense in that we have an intuition. I think our intuition is something that we all have the ability to tap into and we often regret when we don’t follow it. Tyler Henry
Data is a tool for enhancing intuition. Hilary Mason
Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what’s validating to me. It’s a great feeling to know you can trust your gut. Whitney Wolfe Herd
Synchronicity is basically coincidences with a meaning. That synchronicity is in our lives to help us get in touch with our loved ones and also refine our intuition. Tyler Henry
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know. Anthony J. D’Angelo
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met. Farrah Fawcett
Our intuition about the future is linear. But the reality of information technology is exponential, and that makes a profound difference. If I take 30 steps linearly, I get to 30. If I take 30 steps exponentially, I get to a billion. Ray Kurzweil
It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that – an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends. Iain McGilchrist
Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition – you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens. Rachel Morrison
Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts. Tyler Henry
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Florence Scovel Shinn
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create. David Byrne
Roosevelt’s humor was broad, his manner friendly. Of wit there was little; of philosophy, none. What did he possess? Intuition, inspiration, love of adventure. Emanuel Celler
The intuition of free will gives us the truth. Corliss Lamont
What passes for woman’s intuition is often nothing more than man’s transparency. George Jean Nathan
Well, the album ‘Intuition’ is out and just went platinum officially. So I think to have the music doing what it’s doing right now, man, it’s the ultimate. Nobody is really selling records out there but we are at a million records and we dropped it at Christmas, so we are just trying to get that thing to like two million, you know. Jamie Foxx
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
Graphic design, which evokes the symmetria of Vituvius, the dynamic symmetry of Hambidge, the asymmetry of Mondrian; which is a good gestalt, generated by intuition or by computer, by invention or by a system of coordinates, is not good design if it does not communicate. Paul Rand
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
Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks. Piet Mondrian
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 the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs. David Lynch
Many ideas happen to us. We have intuition, we have feeling, we have emotion, all of that happens, we don’t decide to do it. We don’t control it. Daniel Kahneman
My intuition always guides me to the right place. Gemma Collins
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known. Madeleine L’Engle
When you have an older group of players, they play on automatic pilot a lot of the time, but with youngsters, you have more intuition. Louis van Gaal
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention. Deepak Chopra
Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot. Daniel Tammet
Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift. Minna Antrim
I write as if I were drunk. It is a process of intuition rather than placing myself above my story like a puppeteer pulling strings. For me, it’s a scary, chaotic process over which I have little control. Words demand other words, characters resist me. Elif Safak
I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition. Brian May
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. Henri Bergson
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. Rita Mae Brown
I think the worst that can happen in filmmaking is if you’re working with a storyboard. That kills all intuition, all fantasy, all creativity. Werner Herzog
I make all my decisions on intuition. Ingmar Bergman
If you have never been tortured, or locked up and verbally threatened, you may find it hard to believe that anyone would confess to something he had not done. Intuition holds that the innocent do not make false confessions. David K. Shipler
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Intuition is a strong feminine quality. Carolina Herrera
‘Arrival’ talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It’s more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition. Denis Villeneuve
There is no such thing as women’s intuition. You all just have crap poker faces. Rachel Shelley
The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears. Dan Stevens
Your intuition will tell you where you need to go; it will connect you with people you should meet; it will guide you toward work that is meaningful for you – work that brings you joy, work that feels right for you. Shakti Gawain
For some reason I have a visual intuition that allows me to design things in an interesting way, and I don’t know where that came from. Because I don’t have this formal training, I seem to drift in a different direction. David Carson
Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it’s a power nap. On the strong ends, it’s a giant battery, and that battery doesn’t run out. Ben Foster
The thing a drama school can’t give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can’t be taught, and you have to have intuition. It’s an essential ingredient. Gary Oldman
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once. Johann Kaspar Lavater
People are good at intuition, living our lives. What are computers good at? Memory. Eric Schmidt
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself. Henry Reed
A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias. Siddhartha Mukherjee
Most good players play on intuition. Everyone has a little, but I don’t know if you can learn it. Frenkie de Jong
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition. D. H. Lawrence
Statistics rarely drive me. Feelings, intuition, and gut instinct do. Jason Fried
The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I want to tell people is, you have to believe your gut. You have to find answers from what your gut is telling you. I always work with intuition. Dominique Crenn
When we allow distractions to wobble us away from ourselves, that’s when our intuition starts to fade and our focus dulls. Tara Stiles
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. Jonas Salk
A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition. Gilbert K. Chesterton
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
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. Maurice Ravel
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. Richard Courant
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. Richard Dawkins
Have faith in your intuition and listen to your gut feeling. Ann Cotton
I completely work on the basis of my intuition. I don’t think I premeditate a success formula. There is no formula to make a successful film. Rajkumar Hirani
I have to follow my instinct and intuition and curiosity. Ryuichi Sakamoto
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. Alexis Carrel
Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong. Tamara Mellon
You can defeat fear through humor, through pain, through honesty, bravery, intuition, and through love in the truest sense. John Cassavetes
I’m a collector of experiences and also very impulsive; I get an impulse to do something and my intuition of telling me to do something or if I get this idea and I think it’s brilliant, I just have to do it. Julia Fox
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often. Andre Weil
When you are married to a guy who takes chances every day, who loves risk and has great intuition and great business instincts – when you’re married to someone like that who pushes you to dream big, you dream big. Joanna Gaines
Follow your intuition, listening to your dreams, your inner voice to guide you. Katori Hall
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover. Henri Poincare
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself. Alan Alda
Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct – a gift of knowing without reasoning… Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence – it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success. Angela Ahrendts
I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill. Stanley Druckenmiller
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. Anne Wilson Schaef
Some people say there’s nothing new under the sun. I still think that there’s room to create, you know. And intuition doesn’t necessarily come from under this sun. It comes from within. Pharrell Williams
I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for. Deepak Chopra