Intuitive Reasoning Quotes

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Demonstration, similitude & harmony are objects of reasoning. Invention, identity & melody are objects of intuition.

To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind.

One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we human beings cannot possibly rely upon our own intuitions to rightly guide us in the world.

I'm saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.

Common sense is merely unaided intuition, and unaided intuition is reasoning performed in the absense of instruments and the tested knowledge of science. Common sense tells us that massive satellites cannot hang suspended 36,000 kilometers above the one point on the earth's surface, but they do.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Feelings are much stronger than thoughts. We are all led by instinct, and our intellect catches up later

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.

We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel.

I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly say, "Oh, I see. That's how it must be." This is a sign that they explain it to themselves from within their own system.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

It is my nature to thin where others read.

Human intelligence trumps electronic or signals intelligence every time.

A good traditional conceptual instruction is what I got from my better professors at MIT. They would be at a chalkboard, and they would literally be explaining something and working through a problem, but it wasn't rote. They were explaining the underlying theory and processes and intuition behind it.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Some people will follow their minds without listening to their hearts, and others will follow their hearts without listening to their minds. This is why reason exists, for there to be balance between the heart and mind. We were not meant to follow the mind and ignore the heart. Instead, we were meant to follow the heart over the mind, but without completely abandoning logic. The middle way is the preferred way, and this path simply means to allow your heart to drive you, but do not forget to balance reason with your conscience.