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For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.(Quote by - Wayne Dyer)

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. (Quote by - Dr. Alexis Carrel)

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. (Quote by - Henry Miller)

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)

Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)

If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)

I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. (Quote by - Anne Wilson Schaef)

Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.(Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)

To have character is to be big enough to take life on. (Quote by - Mary Caroline Richards)

It is our business to go as we are impelled. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

Intuition always has our best interest at heart.(Quote by - Christina Baldwin)

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.Dr.(Quote by - Joyce Brothers)

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)

A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings. . . . . There throbs through all the worlds that are This heart-beat not and strong, And shaken systems, star by star, Awake and glow in song. (Quote by - Donald Marquis)

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on. (Quote by - Carolyn Kenmore)

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)

Instinct is the nose of the mind. (Quote by - Madame de Girardin)

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.(Quote by - Albert Einstein)

How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. (Quote by - William James)

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