Abstraction Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind is the enemy of intuition, according to many New Age adherents, but I don't buy that. I look at everything in terms…

— Shakti Gawain

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

— Viola Spolin

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

— Frances G. Wickes

To be rationally minded, the mental process of the intuitive appears to work backward. His conclusions are reached before his premises. This is not…

— Frances G. Wickes

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

— David Lynch

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei

I realized that, to a large degree, I had kept my rational mind at bay my whole life. I just acted on intuition in…

— Jeff Mangum

There is no substitute for intuition.

— Paul Klee

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

— Anne Lamott

Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most part, we're…

— Ray Kurzweil