Definition of Intuition

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Intuition

A looking after; a regard to.

Direct apprehension or cognition; immediate knowledge, as in perception or consciousness; -- distinguished from "mediate" knowledge, as in reasoning; as, the mind knows by intuition that black is not white, that a circle is not a square, that three are more than two, etc.; quick or ready insight or apprehension.

Any object or truth discerned by direct cognition; especially, a first or primary truth.

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Intuition Quotations

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

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

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

God made man stronger but not necessarily more intelligent. He gave women intuition and femininity. And, used properly, that combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
Farrah Fawcett

A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Faith is a passionate intuition.
William Wordsworth

The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Rene Descartes

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore De Balzac

Intuition Translations

intuition in Norwegian is intuisjon

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