89 Intuition Quotes

Intuition, that inner voice guiding our decisions and actions, has always been a source of fascination and inspiration. Throughout history, some of the most influential thinkers, leaders, and visionaries have spoken about the power and significance of trusting one's gut. Whether you're seeking a boost in confidence, a reminder to listen to your inner self, or simply some thought-provoking wisdom, these handpicked 89 Intuition Quotes offer profound insights and timeless advice. Dive in and let these words of wisdom illuminate your path.

1. “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” - Kahlil Gibran

2. “intuition is always right in at least two important ways;It is always in response to something.it always has your best interest at heart” - Gavin De Becker

3. “That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody like him; that surprised her. But she was so certain about it, so certain.” - Alexander McCall Smith

4. “Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.” - Madeleine L'Engle

5. “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” - Blaise Pascal

6. “I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.” - Albert Einstein

7. “Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out.” - Malcolm Gladwell

8. “Watching television is like taking black spray paint to your third eye.” - Bill Hicks

9. “What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.” - Aberjhani

10. “It's natural to think that living things must be the handiwork of a designer. But it was also natural to think that the sun went around the earth. Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.[Can You Believe in God and Evolution? Time Magazine, August 7, 2005]” - Steven Pinker

11. “As he walked along, consciously enjoying the early coolness of the morning, he turned and looked behind him. People often do this and are usually surprised to find that there is some reason for turning around. Sometimes there is no apparent reason and they wonder why they did it. ("Ordeal By Water")” - Percival Christopher Wren

12. “Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy nor world-estranged mysticism his era demands, but a balance between quantitative and qualitative reality. Modern man, with his reduced capacity for intuitive perception, is unlikely to benefit from the contemplative life of a hermit in the wilderness. But what he can do is to give undivided attention, at times, to a natural phenomenon, observing it in detail, and recalling all the scientific facts about it he may remember. Gradually, however, he must silence his thoughts and, for moments at least, forget all his personal cares and desires, until nothing remains in his soul but awe for the miracle before him. Such efforts are like journeys beyond the boundaries of narrow self-love and, although the process of intuitive awakening is laborious and slow, its rewards are noticeable from the very first. If pursued through the course of years, something will begin to stir in the human soul, a sense of kinship with the forces of life consciousness which rule the world of plants and animals, and with the powers which determine the laws of matter. While analytical intellect may well be called the most precious fruit of the Modern Age, it must not be allowed to rule supreme in matters of cognition. If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man's heart just as much as the cold inquisitiveness of his brain.” - Franz Winkler

13. “I find that some philosophers think that my whole approach to qualia is not playing fair. I don’t respect the standard rules of philosophical thought experiments. “But Dan, your view is so counterintuitive!” No kidding. That’s the whole point. Of course it is counterintuitive. Nowhere is it written that the true materialist theory of consciousness should be blandly intuitive. I have all along insisted that it may be very counterintuitive. That’s the trouble with “pure” philosophical method here. It has no resources for developing, or even taking seriously, counterintuitive theories, but since it is a very good bet that the true materialist theory of consciousness will be highly counterintuitive (like the Copernican theory--at least at first), this means that “pure” philosophy must just concede impotence and retreat into conservative conceptual anthropology until the advance of science puts it out of its misery. Philosophers have a choice: they can play games with folk concepts (ordinary language philosophy lives on, as a kind of aprioristic social anthropology) or they can take seriously the claim that some of these folk concepts are illusion-generators. The way to take that prospect seriously is to consider theories that propose revisions to those concepts.” - Daniel C. Dennett

14. “To me, a witch is a woman that is capable of letting her intuition take hold of her actions, that communes with her environment, that isn't afraid of facing challenges.” - Paulo Coelho

15. “Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind.""Then possibly my answer has crossed yours.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

16. “I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances around at the back, where it can't be controlled. But the front of the head is where the pain begins.” - Sebastian Barry

17. “There is no single thing... that is so cut and dried that one cannot attend to its secret whisper which says 'I am more than just my appearance'. If each object quivers with readiness to imply something other than itself, if each perception is a word in a poem dense with connotations, then the poet's selection of any given subject of speculation will become... a means of attuning himself to the rhythms and harmonies of reality at large. ... The notion of a network of correspondence is not an outmoded Romantic illusion: it represents a crucial intuition...” - Roger Cardinal

18. “Come from the heart, the true heart, not the head. When in doubt, choose the heart. This does not mean to deny your own experiences and that which you have empirically learned through the years. It means to trust your self to integrate intuition and experience. There is a balance, a harmony to be nurtured, between the head and the heart. When the intuition rings clear and true, loving impulses are favored.” - Brian Weiss

19. “This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.” - Paul Brunton

20. “The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.” - Santosh Kalwar

21. “The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our intuition. Yet if one dismisses instinct, how can one understand or believe in a world that exists beyond one's sight?” - Megan Chance

22. “Nothing comes unannounced, but many can miss the announcement. So it's very important to actually listen to your own intuition rather than driving through it.” - Terence McKenna

23. “What good is intuition if your heart gets in the way of hearing it?” - Shannon Alder

24. “You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.” - Joss Whedon

25. “Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so little experience. A grown-up person knows the word because they've seen it often before.” - Agatha Christie

26. “Open your thoughts to the probability that you are more intuitive than you realize” - Sylvia Clare

27. “Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.” - Sylvia Clare

28. “It is important to recognise that you may have dismissed intuitive experiences as pure chance when they occured. Now is the time to open your thoughts to the probability that you are far more intuitive than you ever realised.” - Sylvia Clare

29. “There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect; what you do now will create your own future.” - Sylvia Clare

30. “Intuition represents a concept which is made up from lots of ideas and assumptions, not all of which will be common to everyone.” - Sylvia Clare

31. “Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.” - Sylvia Clare

32. “Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold.” - Sylvia Clare

33. “Intuition comes in several forms:- a sudden flash of insight, visual or auditory- a predictive dream- a spinal shiver of recognition as something is occurring or told to you- a sense of knowing something already- a sense of deja vu - a snapshot image of a future scene or event- knowledge, perspective or understanding divined from tools which respond to the subconscious mind” - Sylvia Clare

34. “Intuition is an essential part of the whole experience of living. Although it will not help predict the future or how people will behave, using intuition as a guide makes life more rewarding. It helps you follow what seems to be the right path, even when social convention or common sense appears to tell differently” - Sylvia Clare

35. “Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills” - Sylvia Clare

36. “I wonder why he hastened to tell us that George Hearne was buried in the churchyard, and then added that naturally he was!' 'It's the natural place to be buried in,' said I. 'Quite. That's just why it was hardly worth mentioning.' I felt then, just momentarily, just vaguely, as if my mind was regarding stray pieces of a jig-saw puzzle. The fancied ringing of the telephone bell last night was one of them, this burial of George Hearne in the churchyard was another, and, even more inexplicably, the ladder I had seen under the trees was a third. Consciously I made nothing whatever out of them, and did not feel the least inclination to devote any ingenuity to so fortuitous a collection of pieces. Why shouldn't I add, for that matter, our morning's bathe, or the gorse on the hillside? But I had the sensation that, though my conscious brain was presently occupied with piquet, and was rapidly growing sleepy with the day of sun and sea, some sort of mole inside it was digging passages and connecting corridors below the soil. ("Expiation")” - E.F. Benson

37. “Be honest: did you actually read [the above geometric proof]? Of course not. Who would want to? The effect of such a production being made over something so simple is to make people doubt their own intuition. Calling into question the obvious by insisting that it be 'rigorously proved' ... is to say to a student 'Your feelings and ideas are suspect. You need to think and speak our way.” - Paul Lockhart

38. “We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.” - Paulo Coelho

39. “Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.” - Alec Wilkinson

40. “Aestheticism is the garbage of intuitive feeling.” - Kazimir Severinovich Malevich

41. “Cease trying to work everything out with your mind. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a Revelation.” - Eileen Cady

42. “There are responses which originate from joy. Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option, or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold. The dictionary defines it as immediate unreasoned perception.” - Sylvia Clare

43. “Meditation is an essential travel partner on your journey of personal transformation. Meditation connects you with your soul,and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love.” - Sarah McLean

44. “What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by love. "Without love there would be no contemplation." Contemplation is a loving attainment of awareness. It is intuition of the beloved object.” - Josef Pieper

45. “Who among us has not suddenly looked into his child's face, in the midst of the toils and troubles of everyday life, and at that moment "seen" that everything which is good, is loved and lovable, loved by God! Such certainties all mean, at bottom, one and the same thing: that the world is plumb and sound; that everything comes to its appointed goal; that in spite of all appearances, underlying all things is - peace, salvation, gloria; that nothing and no one is lost; that "God holds in his hand the beginning, middle, and end of all that is." Such nonrational, intuitive certainties of the divine base of all that is can be vouchsafed to our gaze even when it is turned toward the most insignificant-looking things, if only it is a gaze inspired by love. That, in the precise sense, is contemplation...Out of this kind of contemplation of the created world arise in never-ending wealth all true poetry and all real art, for it is the nature of poetry and art to be paean and praise heard above all the wails of lamentation. No one who is not capable of such contemplation can grasp poetry in a poetic fashion, that is to say, in the only meaningful fashion. The indispensability, the vital function of the arts in man's life, consists above all in this: that through them contemplation of the created world is kept alive and active.” - Josef Pieper

46. “Situations produce vibrations. Negative, potentially harmful situations emit slow vibrations. Positive, potentially life-enhancing situations emit quick vibrations. As these vibrations impact on your energy field they produce either resonance or dissonance in your lower and middle tantiens (psychic power stations) depending on your own vibratory rate at the time. When you psychic field force is strong and your vibratory rate is fast, therefore, you will draw only positive situations to you. When you mind is quiet enough and your attention is on the moment, you will literally hear the dissonance in your belly and chest like an alarm bell going off, urging you from deep within your body to move in such and such a direction. Always follow it. At times these urges may come to you in the form of internally spoken dialogue with your higher self, spirit guide, guardian angel, alien intelligence, however you see the owner of the “still, small voice within.” This form of dialogue can be entertaining and reassuring but is best not overindulged in as, in the extreme; it tends to lead to the loony bin. At times you may receive your messages from “Indian signs”, such as slogans on passing trucks or cloud formations in the sky. This is also best kept in moderation, to avoid seeing signs in everything and becoming terribly confused. Just let it happen when it happens and don’t try looking for it.” - Stephen Russell

47. “You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.” - Ingrid Bergman

48. “The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve autonomy from your parents, find a moderately satisfying job, form a relationship, perhaps raise some children, watch the onset of mortality in your parents' generation and eventually in your own, until one day a fatal illness starts gnawing at your innards and you calmly go to the grave, shut the coffin and are done with the self-evident business of life.” - Alain De Botton

49. “If you want to annoy a poet, explain his poetry.” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

50. “Surround yourself with 'yay-sayers' not naysayers.” - Lynn A. Robinson

51. “Learn to trust yourself and you will create a meaningful life.” - Lynn A. Robinson

52. “Trust your inner voice.” - Lynn A. Robinson

53. “When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.” - Lynn A. Robinson

54. “Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

55. “Intuition is already in contact with Existence. Intuition is already in contact with that, which is larger than ourselves.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

56. “A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in any spiritual endeavor, and that the conscious, rational, logical, analytical mind is the mortal enemy of spiritual awareness and soul growth.” - Anthon St. Maarten

57. “All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries have not yet attained that pitch of intelligence when they will give the preference to my theories over Lestrade's facts.” - Arthur Conan Doyle

58. “The true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition aiming to achieve your bliss.” - Steven Redhead

59. “Faith requires following the power of a whisper.” - Shannon L. Alder

60. “Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.” - Kim Chestney

61. “Learning to pay attention to how your body feels can offer you rich guidance about your choices and direction in life.” - Lynn A. Robinson

62. “When you have a dream and are committed to achieving it, your life takes on new meaning. By unfolding a dream, you discover what makes you happy and brings you joy.” - Lynn A. Robinson

63. “Positive thinking may seem like a fairly basic thing, but I know people who, when asked if they understand the importance of positive affirmations, reply, "Yes! I'm positive things will not work out!” - Lynn A. Robinson

64. “When you fill your soul by listening to and acting on your intuition, you'll find yourself moving toward the fulfillment of your dreams.” - Lynn A. Robinson

65. “Your spirit knows your purpose, your calling, and your highest potential. It may come as that inner voice that nudges you, saying "There's something bigger out there for you. You have a larger purpose. LISTEN.” - Lynn A. Robinson

66. “Honor your desire for a new life. Say yes to the small inklings of interest and curiosity that present themselves each day.” - Lynn A. Robinson

67. “It's time to launch yourself into that bigger life using your full capacities and with the light of our spirit shining brightly.” - Lynn A. Robinson

68. “You have an inner prosperity guide: your intuition. When you begin to pay attention to it, it will lead you to this truth - Abundance is your birthright.” - Lynn A. Robinson

69. “Listen to what you tell yourself about your life situation. If you find it's pessimistic or negative, ask yourself, "What's another way of thinking about this?" or "What do I want to create in my life?” - Lynn A. Robinson

70. “Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?” - Lynn A. Robinson

71. “Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.” - Lynn A. Robinson

72. “This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.” - Dean Koontz

73. “Your thoughts are transparent.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

74. “We are all blessed ones. Heaven is no longer in the clouds. It is right here, all around us, everywhere; we must only open our eyes to see it.” - Kim Chestney

75. “There are no ordinary people. The blur or everyday reality has created a world in which most of us have forgotten our unique and sacred existence...it is [our] true self, once discovered, that enables us to understand more clearly the nature of our world, and our own existence.” - Kim Chestney

76. “Our Intuition is the beacon that guides us to peace, and navigates us through the treacherous Karmic waters.” - Kim Chestney

77. “But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive in this exciting age of our humanity’s journey toward a greater life and a more fundamentally intelligent evolution of our species.” - Martha Char Love

78. “When we embrace our Intuition, be embrace a new way of living...The intuitive process is an adventure. There are new discoveries around every corner, and we always have the power to change our lives.” - Kim Chestney

79. “Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice within, which is already in contact with the Existence. Intuition is the voice of God. The more you come in contact with the inner silence, the inner emptiness, the more you have access to your intuition. Silence is the nourishment for intuition. If something increases your love, joy and silence, it is the criterion that it is the right path for you. If something decreases your love, joy and silence, it is a sign that you are on the wrong path. Do not compare yourself with others when it comes to take a decision about what you should do, follow the love, joy and silence of your heart and inner being. When you are in contact with your inner silence, you just know what you should do - you do not have to think about it, and you do not need not compare the pros and cons - you just know. You can listen to the advice of others, but always listen to your intuition, to your inner teacher and guide in life, when you take the final decision. The intuition, the language of silence, will always lead your right.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

80. “Intuition is our inner teacher, our inner source of love, truth and wisdom, in life.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

81. “Intuition means to follow the silent whispers of the inner in a basic “yes” to life.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

82. “Through learning to listen to our own intuition, it develops to a constantly available inner source of love, truth and wisdom. We can close our eyes, go within, and always receive the right guidance.” - Swami Dhyan Giten

83. “A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see” - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

84. “They were two people staring at each other knowingly, communicating psychically amidst an ocean of deaf, dumb and blind meatsacks.” - Travis Luedke

85. “As human beings, we haven’t lost our intuition; we just stopped paying attention” - Heidi DuPree

86. “The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known.” - Raheel Farooq

87. “For far too long we have been seduced into walking a path that did not lead us to ourselves. For far too long we have said yes when we wanted to say no. And for far too long we have said no when we desperately wanted to say yes. . . . When we don't listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don't, others will abandon us.” - Terry Tempest Williams

88. “When I look in the mirror, I see a woman with secrets. When we don’t listen to our intuition, we abandon our souls. And we abandon our souls because we are afraid if we don’t, others will abandon us.” - Terry Tempest Williams

89. “For someone so intuitive,” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see.” - M.A. George