Genius - to know without having learned; to draw just conclusions from unknown premises; to discern the soul of things.
He is not apprehended by reason, but by life.
Animals are ever so psychic. There are some people who just can't come in here. The cats particularly seem to know. You can fool everybody, but landy M deary-me, you can't fool a cat. They seem to know who's not right, if you know what I mean.
To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.
I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
Your heart often knows things before your mind does.
Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?
I have a feeling, one of those gut feelings, that I'll make pretty good movies the rest of my life.
Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired.
I'm always gratified when I check something I've made up and discover that I've gotten it right. How can we imagine something that turns out to be true? How can we know things we couldn't possibly know? It makes me wonder about the existence of a collective unconscious.
