TopTen
Quotes about Intuition
from EQ Coach Susan Dunn

1. Intuition is the superior way of knowing ultimate truth without the use of prior knowledge or reason. -- Spinoza

2. How do you know when it's your intuition? When you feel absolutely certain. --Anon.

3. The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you, and you don't know how or why. -- Albert Einstein

4. The only mistake I ever made was not listening to my gut. --Lee Iacocca

5. I know when I have a problem and have done all I can to figure it out, I keep listening in a sort of inside silence until something clicks and I feel a right answer.
-- Conrad Hilton

6. We spent (almost none) of our time studying plans for the mission and (almost all of our time) learning how to react intuitively to all the "what ifs." Reliance on the intuitive response was the most important part of an astronaut's training. -- Edgar Mitchell

7. What this power is, I cannot say. All I know is that it exists...and it becomes available only when you are in that state of mind in which you know exactly what you want...and are fully determined not to quit until you get it. -- Alexander Graham Bell

8. With experience [your sensitivity] can make possible the detection of nuances of feelings and meanings that would elude...explicit documentation. This sensitivity is not solely a matter of education or supervision. It is a product of life experience .. the product of varied and meaningful human contacts, of exposure to the esthetic dimensions of life (art, poetry, myths, music), and of [introspection and reflection]. -- James F. T. Bugental

9. There's a direct correlation between practicing kindness and the development of intuition. -- Belleruth Naparstek

10. One way to tell your intuition is trying to tell you something ... things break. -- Suzee Ebeling

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