Intuition

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We know the truth, not only by the reason, but by the heart.

Blaise Pascal

Pensées

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Topic

Knowing the truth Truth Limits of reason Intuition

Author

Blaise Pascal

Source

Pensées

Medium

Epigram

Genre

Philosophical literature

Language

French

Time

1670 1670s 17th century

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Original Citation

Pascal, Blaise. Pensées [Thoughts]. Paris: Chez G. Desprez, 1670, no. 1.

Current Citation

Pascal, Blaise. "Pensées." Pensées and Other Writings, edited by Anthony Levi, translated by Honor Levi. Oxford University Press, 2008, no. 1.

I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else's brain can ever tell me.

Donald Trump

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Intuition

Speaker

Donald Trump

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

2018 2010s 21st century

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Citation

Trump, Donald. Interview. Washington Post, 27 Nov. 2018.

My heart suspects more than mine eye can see.

William Shakespeare

Titus Andronicus

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Topic

Intuition Suspicion Heart vs. mind

Speaker

Quintus

Author

William Shakespeare

Source

Titus Andronicus

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragedy (play)

Language

English

Time

1594 1590s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Original Citation

Shakespeare, William. Titus Andronicus. Sussex's Men, 1594, The Rose, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

Current Citation

Shakespeare, William. "Titus Andronicus." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.

Albert Einstein

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Topic

New ideas Discovery Intuition Innovation Creativity

Author

Albert Einstein

Source

Letters of Albert Einstein

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1949 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Einstein, Albert. "Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon." Quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe, by Walter Isaacson. Simon & Schuster, 2007. Originally from Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon, 3 May 1949.

I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Topic

Seeking Inner life Intuition

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

Current Citation

Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

I am certain of nothing but of the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination—What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth—whether it existed before or not.

John Keats

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Topic

Intuition Imagination

Author

John Keats

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1817 1810s 19th century

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Original Citation

Keats, John. Letter to Benjamin Bailey. 22 Nov. 1817.

Current Citation

Keats, John. "Benjamin Bailey 22 November 1817." John Keats: Selected Letters, edited by John Barnard. Penguin Classics, 2015.

The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness.

Carl Jung

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Topic

Decisions and choices Reason and emotion Intuition Reason

Author

Carl Jung

Source

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Genre

Psychological literature

Language

German

Time

1933 1930s 20th century

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Citation

Jung, Carl. "Aims of Psychotherapy." Modern Man in Search of a Soul, translated by Cary F. Baynes and William Stanley Dell. Kegen Paul, Trenche, Trubner & Co., 1933.

To trust your intuition is exactly the opposite of any sort of formal education.

Chris Burden

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Topic

Intuition Education

Speaker

Chris Burden

Source

Failure: Documents of Contemporary Art

Medium

Interview

Language

English

Time

1993 1990s 20th century

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Citation

Burden, Chris. Failure: Documents of Contemporary Art, edited by Lisa Le Feuvre. MIT Press, 2010. Originally spoken during an interview with John Bewley, c. 2010.