Mind

"The famous philosopher's stone cannot be discovered or created without the participation of woman... The first task which faces women is to insist in all countries upon full rights and equal education with men; to try with all their might to develop their thinking faculties, and, above all, to learn to stand on their own feet without leaning altogether upon men. In the West there are many fields which are now available to women, and one must admit that they are quite successful in all of them. It is necessary to awaken in woman herself a great respect for her own Origin; she should realize her great destiny as a bearer of the higher energy. Indeed, it is woman's intuition which should again, as in the better periods of history, lead humanity on the path of progress..."

"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

"A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action."

"Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data."

"What is of the essence of what is perfectly known cannot be defined; for the more a thing is known, the more it brings us to intuition, which excludes all equation."

"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."

"The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just."

"Women have fantastic intuition. I think they come more naturally to grace; tenderness and affection are considered feminine qualities. It's important for men to learn from women those characteristics that don't come as naturally to us. I think my father was raised in a time when those things were taught to be signs of weakness; that is, if you were sensitive and aware in a different way from just the macho version. It's wonderful that that's changing."

"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."

"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 others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."

"Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's never going to be as spontaneous as when you have been bathing in this environment during childhood."

"Intuition is the positive energy that envy kills when it refuses to see the rainbow in the sky."

"Always follow the line of thought of the intuition negating envy."

"Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success."

"Intuition Peak is the sharp peak of elevation 780 m in Levski Ridge, Tangra Mountains, Livingston Island, situated 1.4 km NNW of Helmet Peak and 5.4 km SE of Atanasoff Nunatak. According to the Bulgarian topographic survey Tangra 2004/05. It is named in appreciation of the role of scientific intuition for the advancement of human knowledge."

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

"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."

"…do not let religious intuitions escape you, for they do not come twice."

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

"Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality."

"Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level."

"Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself."

"Intuition is the driving force that is not drawn back by any bad feeling. Intuition renews itself -n ot knowing the whereabouts of progress nor questioning the origin of progress—letting it be as it is in its simplicity."

"What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition: that which brings most agreeable and worthy results."

"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."

"Consider the very roots of our ability to discern truth. Above all (or perhaps I should say "underneath all"), common sense is what we depend on – that crazily elusive, ubiquitous faculty we all have to some degree or other.... If we apply common sense to itself over and over again, we wind up building a skyscraper. The ground floor of the structure is the ordinary common sense we all have, and the rules for building news floors are implicit in the ground floor itself. However, working it all out is a gigantic task, and the result is a structure that transcends mere common sense."

"It is a strange irony that the principles of science should seem to deny the necessary conviction of common sense."

"The phrase is self-contradictory; "sense" is never "common"."

"In all spheres of science, art, skill, and handicraft it is never doubted that, in order to master them, a considerable amount of trouble must be spent in learning and in being trained. As regards philosophy, on the contrary, there seems still an assumption prevalent that, though every one with eyes and fingers is not on that account in a position to make shoes if he only has leather and a last, yet everybody understands how to philosophize straight away, and pass judgment on philosophy, simply because he possesses the criterion for doing so in his natural reason."

"Common Sense and Education: The more you think you have of one, the less you think you need of the other."

"Science and common sense differ as cultivated fruits differ from wild fruits. Science sows its seeds of inquiry, and gathers the fruit. Common sense picks the fruit, such as it, is by the wayside. Common sense has no fields or orchards of knowledge."

"The physician would be even worse off than he is, if not for the occasional emergence of common sense which breaks through dogmas with intuitive freshness."

"Common sense is as rare as genius."

"Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

"Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."

"I don’t profess to be profound, but I do lay claim to common sense."

"Unless the materials involved can be traced back to the material of common sense concern there is nothing whatever for scientific concern to be concerned with."

"Le bon sens est la chose du monde la mieux partagée; car chacun pense en être si bien pourvu, que ceux même qui sont les plus difficiles à contenter en toute autre chose n'ont point coutume d'en désirer plus qu'ils en ont."

"Common sense is only the application of theories which have grown and been formulated unconsciously as result of experience."

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."

"A weak mind with no common sense magnifies trifling things and cannot receive great ones."

"Common sense is that which tells us the world is flat."

"Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always somebody else's money he's adding up."

"Many quite nefarious ideologies pass for common sense. For decades of American history, it was common sense in some quarters for white people to own slaves and for women not to vote. ... If common sense sometimes preserves the social status quo, and that status quo sometimes treats unjust social hierarchies as natural, it makes good sense on such occasions to find ways of challenging common sense."

"Wit, without sense, iz like a razor without a handle"

"Common sense is the favorite daughter of Reason, and altho thare are menny other wimmin more attraktive for a time, thare is nothing but death kan rob common sense ov her buty"

"Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life."

"Common sense should be renamed, cos nower days it's rare"

"There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done."