When used correctly, our intuition is a superpower: it allows us to think long term, foresee key events in our life, and make decisions based on a lot of different factors rather than just one or two.
Through our intuition, we can also tune in to our higher self and understand what truly matters to us, and what we truly desire in life. So it’s important that you listen to your inner voice, and trust your gut feeling.
Here is a list of a hundred great quotes about intuition — enjoy!
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
— Dean Koontz
Being able to put your blinders on, ignore negative opinions, and follow your strong intuition is what’s validating to me. It’s a great feeling to know you can trust your gut.
— Whitney Wolfe
Intuition is a spiritual faculty which does not explain, but simply points the way.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don’t have to study people who came before you. You don’t have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what’s right for you, and you can’t do it in any other way.
— Barbra Streisand
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.
— Albert Einstein
A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.
— Lao Tzu
Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
— Carl Jung
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
― Lord Byron
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life, where the histories of all people are connected, and we are able to know everything, because it’s all written there.
— Paulo Coelho
The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, is to understand things by intuition.
— Baruch Spinoza
Follow your intuition. Be smart, be brave, tell the truth. And don’t take any nonsense.
― Kelly Cutrone
At times you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover is yourself.
— Alan Alda
Intuition is always right in at least two important ways: it is always in response to something; and it always has your best interest at heart.
— Gavin de Becker
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business — everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
— David Lynch
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
— Anthony J D’Angelo
You have to become very still and listen while your inner voice — the very essence of you — tells you who you are. You’ll know you’ve found it when every cell in your body practically vibrates; when you’re filled up by what you’re doing instead of being drained by it.
— Oprah Winfrey
Listen to your inner voice, for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you. Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, answers to all you seek to know will come, and the path will open before you.
— Caroline Joy Adams
In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong.
— Carl Jung
Intuition comes from the whole person, from a place that includes the conscious and the unconscious. The total result of all feelings and perceptions manifests spontaneously through intuition. Intuition gives expression to the feelings; that expression is unique and perfectly fitted to the needs of the moment.
— Michele Cassou
The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.
— Isaac Asimov
Trust your hunches. They’re usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
— Joyce Brothers
What many refer to as intuition, then, is not the untaught or unteachable but instead is a learned understanding and respect of process, molded by experience and refined over a great deal of time and practice.
— Jon Kolko
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
— Richard Branson
Your intuition knows what to do. The trick is getting your head to shut up so you can hear.
— Louise Smith
There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.
— John Astin
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
— Dean Koontz
People with high levels of personal mastery cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.
— Peter Senge
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition.
— Henry Mintzberg
If you receive knowledge through the mind, you will always continue to doubt and search for evidence; you will always want someone to reassure you and confirm that you are doing the right thing. Once you come in touch with intuitive knowledge, there is no need for confirmation or evidence from any teacher, swami, or yogi. You will know — and know that you know.
— Swami Rama
It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.
— Jim Shepard
I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it’s smart to listen to other people’s advice, but at the end of the day, you’re the only one who can tell you what’s right for you.
— Jennifer Lopez
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn’t nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.
— Anne Lamott
That is what intuition is for: it is the direct messenger of the soul.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
— Albert Einstein
You cannot love without intuition.
— Graham Greene
The truth about life and lies about life are not measured by others, but by your intuition, which never lies.
— Santosh Kalwar
We need to be willing to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
— Shakti Gawain
If you connect with a greater part of yourself, I call it higher self, but that’s an experience, and when you do this, knowledge comes in, including intuition, and it’s always about: “what’s my heart’s sole desire?”
— James Redfield
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
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
Intuition works closely alongside fate, like they’re business partners working together to alter the course of your life.
— Katie Kacvinsky
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
— Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.
— Alexis Carrel
Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
— John Kord Lagemann
God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I’ve ever met.
— Farrah Fawcett
Our intuition is like a muscle, we must practice listening to it and trusting its wisdom. When you take the time to ask and keep listening for the answer, being at peace becomes easy.
― Lisa Prosen
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
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
— Albert Einstein
Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.
— Shakti Gawain
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
— Robert Graves
Faith is a passionate intuition.
— William Wordsworth
Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it’s a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it’s wrong.
— Tamara Mellon
Listen to the wind, it talks. Listen to the silence, it speaks. Listen to your heart, it knows.
— Native American Proverb
Intuition and concepts constitute the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
— Immanuel Kant
All great men are gifted with intuition. They know, without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
— Alexis Carrel
There are times in all of our lives when a reliance on gut or intuition just seems more appropriate — when a particular course of action just feels right. And interestingly, I’ve discovered it’s in facing life’s most important decisions that intuition seems the most indispensable to getting it right.
— Tim Cook
An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.
— Henri Bergson
There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.
— Rumi
When the Universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with “maybe”, “should I”, or even “perhaps”. I always know for sure when it is telling me to proceed because everything inside me rises up to reverberate: “yes!”
— Oprah Winfrey
Don’t try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
— Madeleine L’Engle
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 Revelation.
— Eileen Caddy
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We are born with this inner guidance, which comes in the form of the emotions and desires that lead us toward things, including thoughts, that feel good and are good for us, and away from things that feel bad and are bad for us.
— Christiane Northrup
I allow my intuition to lead my path.
— Manuel Puig
I feel there are two people inside me: me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.
— Kim Basinger
I have trusted my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
— V. S. Naipaul
Truth is when your mind and your gut agree.
― Shannon Hale
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
― Henry Winkler
Your heart and gut are still your best guide.
― Naveen Jain
Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.
— Corliss Lamont
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
— Michael Burke
Intuition is reason in a hurry.
— Holbrook Jackson
Trusting your gut. Using your sixth sense. Having a hunch. These are all ways of describing your built-in intuition or guidance system. We all have it. In fact, your gut makes more neurochemicals than your brain. Some of you may feel you have lost your gut-brain, but there are many ways to get it back. Simply desiring to develop your intuition — or regain it — is a good start.
— Christiane Northrup
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the deeper, the broader, the more constructive may be the result.
— Edgar Cayce
Conversion for me was not a Damascus Road experience. I slowly moved into an intellectual acceptance of what my intuition had always known.
— Madeleine L’Engle
Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.
— Henry Reed
Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.
— Andre Weil
Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.
— Jonas Salk
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
— Henri Poincare
Listen to your intuition. It will tell you everything you need to know.
— Anthony J. D’Angelo
Trust your own instinct. Your mistake might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.
— Billy Wilder
The intuition of free will gives us the truth.
— Corliss Lamont
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
— Goethe
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
— Gisele Bundchen
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
— Lao Tzu
The two operations of our understanding: intuition and deduction.
— Rene Descartes
There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
— Albert Einstein
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.
— Wayne Dyer
The heart knows what it wants, and it often makes no sense. Intuition, creativity, and listening are all imperative in creating an inspired life.
— Jonathan H. Ellerby
The more we learn to operate in the world based on trust in our intuition, the stronger our channel will be and the more money we will have.
— Shakti Gawain
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
— Albert Einstein
Intuition is a way of knowing about the world through insight and exercising one’s imagination.
— Valerie Janesick
Intuition is a perception by ways or means of the unconscious.
— Carl Jung
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most importantly, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
— Steve Jobs
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.
— Anne Lamott
We need to make the world safe for creativity and intuition, for it is creativity and intuition that will make the world safe for us.
— Edgar Mitchell
Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.
— Shakti Gawain
We always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.
— Paulo Coelho
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
— Jane Austen