Here is a sample of what I want , from the Buddhist perspective.....
Here are some quotations on intuition.
There is no logical way to the discovery of elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
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.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself among profoundly religious men.
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.
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
~ Albert Einstein
20th century physicist, creator of the theory of relativity.
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All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness - I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
Aaron Copland( american composer)
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
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This, therefore, is a law not found in books, but written on the fleshly tablets of the heart, which we have not learned from man, received or read, but which we have caught up from Nature herself, sucked in and imbibed; the knowledge of which we were not taught, but for which we were made; we received it not by education, but by intuition.
No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. ~Florence Scovel Shinn
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Knowledge has three degreesopinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
~ Plotinus
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Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth
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INTUITION is the clear concept of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving. A good artist lets his INTUITION lead him wherever it wants.
The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
Lao-Tzu (Chinese Philosopher, Founder of Taoism, Author of the ''Tao Te Ching'')
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All great men are gifted with INTUITION. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
Alexis Carrel (1873-1944, French Biologist )
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It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
Jules Henri Poincare
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Moral education, as I understand it, is not about inculcating obedience to law or cultivating self-virtue, it is rather about finding within us an ever-increasing sense of the worth of creation. It is about how we can develop and deepen our intuitive sense of beauty and creativity.
Andrew Linzey (1952 - )
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Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions.
The primary wisdom is intuition.
Ralph waldo Emerson
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There are two types of mind . . . the mathematical, and what might be called the intuitive. The former arrives at its views slowly, but they are firm and rigid; the latter is endowed with greater flexibility and applies itself simultaneously to the diverse lovable parts of that which it loves.
Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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The boy was beginning to understand that 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 able to know everything, because it's all written there.
Paulo Coelho
Source: The Alchemist
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As with truth of religion, so with the highest and deepest truth of beauty, the intellectual reason cannot seize its inner sense and reality, not even the inner truth of the apparent principles and processes, unless it is aided by a higher insight not its own. As it cannot give a method, process or rule by which beauty can or ought to be created, so also it cannot give to the appreciation of beauty that deeper insight which it needs; it can only help to remove the dullness and vagueness of the habitual perceptions and conceptions of the lower mind which prevent it from seeing beauty or which give it false and crude aesthetic habits: it does this by giving to the mind an external idea and rule of the elements of the thing it has to perceive and appreciate. What is farther needed is the awakening of a certain vision, an insight and an intuitive response in the soul. Reason which studies always from outside, cannot give this inner and more intimate contact; it has to aid itself by a more direct insight springing from the soul itself and to call at every step on the intuitive mind to fill up the gap of its own deficiencies.
Sri Aurobindo, Social & Political Thought, pp. 132-3
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A working hypothesis is that the Self is at the core of the superconscious, just as the 'I' or personal self is at the core of the personality and its various functions (physical, emotional and mental). Interaction between the Self and the 'I' can occur or flow in either direction. When the contents of the superconscious descend into our conscious experience, we receive inspiration, intuition, insight or peak experiences. These moments happen to us, particularly when we least expect them or have not been actively seeking them. However, the flow may also occur in the other direction, through elevating our personality, through consciously aspiring, in a realistic, grounded and purposeful way, towards the heights or depths of our being.
Diana Whitmore, Psychosynthesis in Education, pp. 174-175
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Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.
Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
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Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside the province of reason.
Carl Gustav Jung
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Im saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.
Jonas Salk
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The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialisation of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.
Fritjof Capra
