intuition quotes from influential philosophers, authors and people
"A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."
122
"A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."
262
"I believe in intuitions and inspirations… I sometimes feel that I am right. I do not know that I am."
611
"Whatever I have up till now accepted as most true and assured I have gotten either from the senses or through the senses. But from time to time I have found that the senses deceive, and it is prudent never to trust completely those who have deceived us even once."
939
"Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses."
962
"Trust your heart rather than your head."
1015
"It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me."
1019
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
982