Top 40 Intuition Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Intuition is the whisper of the soul.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

2. “Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.”

— Steve Jobs

3. “Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn’t lie.”

— Oprah Winfrey

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4. “Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.”

— C.G. Jung

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5. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.”

— Steve Jobs

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6. “Intuition is seeing with the soul.”

— Dean Koontz

7. “Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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8. “Trust your intuition. It is the best friend you will ever have.”

— Judith Orloff

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9. “Fewer rules, more intuition.”

— Alan Cohen

10. “Intuition is the undoubting conception of a pure and attentive mind, which arises from the light of reason alone, and is more certain than deduction.”

— René Descartes

11. “The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”

— Albert Einstein

12. “Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”

— Florence Scovel Shinn

13. “Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”

— William James

14. “Intuition is the discriminative faculty that enables you to decide which of two lines of reasoning is right. Perfect intuition makes you a master of all.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

15. “Listen to your own Self. If you listen to that Self within, then you find the Truth.”

— Kabir

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16. “Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.”

— Ray Bradbury

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17. “Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.”

— Deepak Chopra

18. “Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

— Immanuel Kant

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19. “It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”

— Henri Poincaré

20. “Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.”

— Alan Turing

21. “Faith is a passionate intuition.”

— William Wordsworth

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22. “I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

23. “Intuition is a walkie-talkie between the personality an the soul.”

— Gary Zukav

24. “Don’t try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.”

— Madeleine L'Engle

25. “A woman isn’t very powerful without her intuition.”

— Judith Orloff

26. “You’ve got to find the force inside you.”

— Joseph Campbell

27. “No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.”

— Konosuke Matsushita

28. “The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul’s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

29. “Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.”

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

30. “The effects of color are controlled by intuition.”

— Johannes Itten

31. “Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”

— Pablo Picasso

32. “The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.”

— Charles Darwin

33. “Photography is only intuition, a perpetual interrogation – everything except a stage set.”

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

34. “I pay no attention whatever to anybody’s praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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35. “Trust your intuition and be guided by love.”

— Charles Eisenstein

36. “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.”

— Sam Harris

37. “The painting has a life of its own.”

— Jackson Pollock

38. “There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

— Lord Byron

39. “Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”

— Albert Camus

40. “People may come along and argue philosophically that they like one better than another; but we have learned from much experience that all philosophical intuitions about what nature is going to do fail.”

— Richard P. Feynman