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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

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Richard CourantWhat Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

But the interesting cases are those where the conflict remains obstinately in place however much we ...

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I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a by-product. The course was more plodding t...

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Steve MartinBorn Standing Up: A Comic's Life

It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natura...

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The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...

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Ted HughesPoetry in the Making: An Anthology

Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually li...

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Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them...

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Gytha Ogg, you wouldn’t be a witch if you couldn’t jump to conclusions, right?” Nanny nodded. “Oh, y...

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We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin. . .if the question is...

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DONNA: "She said she knew it in her heart. Do you know how many times I've been wrong about things I...

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Aaron SorkinThe West Wing Script Book

What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it ha...

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In a well-balanced, reasoning mind there is no such thing as an intuition - an inspired guess! You c...

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Agatha ChristieThe A.B.C. Murders

The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitivel...

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For us to deem a work of architecture elegant, it is hence not enough that it look simple: we must f...

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At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. Wh...

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The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something ha...

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Alasdair MacIntyreAfter Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am...

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That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody ...

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Alexander McCall SmithDream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams

Intuitions are like migratory birds, they come without a map without a reason.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

We learn from pain that some of the things we thought were castles turn out to be prisons, and we de...

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Anne LamottHelp Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

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Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.

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Arthur Conan DoyleThe Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes

Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.

Intuition is seeing with the soul.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Major scientific insights are characteristically intuitive, and equally characteristically described...

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Intuitive: The word conveys, I think, a diffuse annoyance at our inability to understand how we come...

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Carl SaganDragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a ph...

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Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with se...

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In most sciences, there are few findings more prized than a counterintuitive result. It shows someth...

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Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an ...

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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, ...

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Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives onl...

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To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...

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This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I ha...

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Just supposing," he said, "just supposing" --he didn't know what was coming next, so he thought he'd...

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I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added ...

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E. F. BensonThe Collected Ghost Stories of E.F. Benson

Since the beginningnot one unusual thinghas ever happened.

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Eliezer YudkowskyRationality: From AI to Zombies

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to...

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Gabriel García MárquezLove in the Time of Cholera

The old-fashioned sins of reading is the only sense that matters.

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Harold BloomThe Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

The philosophers make still another objection: "What you gain in rigour," they say, "you lose in obj...

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Pure analysis puts at our disposal a multitude of procedures whose infallibility it guarantees; it o...

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I remember the whole beginning as a succession of flights and drops, a little seesaw of the right th...

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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts wit...

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You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly wh...

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I make all my decisions on intuition. But then, I must know why I made that decision. I throw a spea...

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Feminine intuition? Is that what you wanted the robot for? You men. Faced with a woman reaching a co...

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How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no...

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Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or ...

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Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing whi...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles o...

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Josef PieperHappiness and Contemplation

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.

Your intuition and your intellect should be working together… making love. That’s how it works best.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

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Madeleine L'EngleA Wind in the Door

When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can't explain where it com...

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Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But tha...

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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can ...

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Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily...

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Malcolm GladwellBlink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no r...

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A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

A woman's intuition is better than a man's. Nobody knows anything, really, you know, and a woman can...

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My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to Th...

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Evolution endowed us with intuition only for those aspects of physics that had survival value for ou...

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Max TegmarkOur Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality

Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and p...

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Michael Lewis (author)The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

The dread had not left my soul.

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Neil GaimanThe Ocean at the End of the Lane

There is an earthly sun, which is the cause of all heat, and all who are able to see may see the sun...

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To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that co...

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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of live, where the his...

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Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the his...

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... intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the...

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We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become acc...

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Everything is gestation and then birthing. To let each impression and each embryo of a feeling come ...

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None believeth in the soul of man, but only in some man or person old and departed. Ah me! no man go...

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Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.