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
Trust yourself, you know
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
Hunches
Our feelings are our
Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge. Audre Lorde
The theory that gravitational
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse …. It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away … Read more
I don’t believe in
I don’t believe in hunches. Hunches are for dogs making love. Amarillo Slim
All great men are
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know. Alexis Carrel
Intuition comes very close
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. Alexis Carrel
The only real valuable
The only real valuable thing is intuition. Albert Einstein
You have to leave
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
Someone who has thought
Someone who has thought rationally and deeply about how the body works is likely to arrive at better ideas about how to be healthy than someone who has followed a hunch. Medicine presupposes a hierarchy between the confusion the layperson will be in about what is wrong with him, and the more accurate knowledge available … Read more