John Astin Quotes

Many times, my intuition wins. I trust my intuition a lot. A lot.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom.

There has to be a level of intuition involved in what I do, and the more you use that intuition, the more honed it is.

What happens if you stick at something long enough, and study it for so long, you have a different kind of intelligence. It's not an intellectual thing. It's almost like an animal intelligence. I call it our form of instinct, almost how a lion knows exactly where its prey is.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe. A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?

The primary wisdom is intuition.

Mankind is still embryonic ... [man is] the bud from which something more complicated and more centered than man himself should emerge.

I began to realize that an intuitive understanding and consciousness was more significant than abstract thinking and intellectual logical analysis. Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That's had a big impact on my work.

When I was seventeen, I don't think I even knew what love was. But when it's right, it's right, and you just know it.

The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

From the moment of birth we are immersed in action, and can only fitfully guide it by taking thought.

Where intuition finds, love follows, and memory and all the soul as well.

If sophisticated calculations are needed to justify an action, don't do it.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

Intuition, like the rays of the sun, acts only in an inflexibly straight line; it can guess right only on condition of never diverting its gaze; the freaks of chance disturb it.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

"Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."