WE LEARN A LOT in school. From how to count, spell, read, and write, to remember important events in history, or to calculate probability rates. While these skills might be valuable, emotional competencies like grieving, recognizing your instincts, and honing the skill of acting upon one’s gut feeling may be more universally important, yet they receive minor attention in the traditional classroom setting.
Essentially, we all have basic instincts that tell us to eat, sleep, and survive. But we also have a spiritual instinct.
Your intuition is that part of your brain that sees, feels, and experiences other things than your logical mind. I consider it as this little invisible man, sitting on your shoulder that guides you in times when there’s no reasoning for a situation but only a felt knowing.
It’s that yearning for something more, which is inside of you. It’s that yearning desire that is seeking something higher than your mind and your body. So many times our gut is guiding us through rough times and telling us whether something is the right thing to do right now.
I call it intuition and it is more than just a voice – it’s whispering to you all the time. All animals have it. However, despite all our potential as human beings – we’re the only creatures that try to deny and ignore it.
However, we have a system of schooling which starts with grades that always prepares us for something that’s going to happen. The infamous Alan Watts once stated that in Western society we educate kids to live in the future: We retain an attitude to the child that he is on probation; he is not really a human being, he is a candidate for humanity. And in just this way, we have a whole system of preparation of the child for life which always is preparation and never actually gets there. Watts says that making plans for the future is of use only to people who are capable of living completely in the present.
Despite the huge role that intuition plays in our everyday lives, it is still hard to define it. The nature of intuition has long inspired centuries’ worth of research and inquiry in the fields of philosophy and psychology. In 2016, researchers devised a technique to measure intuition. Based on a small experiment of 20 participants, they found evidence that people can use their intuition to make faster, more accurate and more confident decisions.
The findings on intuition are published online in the journal Psychological Science. According to Joel Pearson, an associate professor of psychology at the University of New South Wales in Australia and the lead author of the study, the study shows that intuition does, indeed, exist and that researchers can measure it.
Through history many people have been talking about the importance of learning to trust your instincts several times, and I personally believe its one of the most important life skills. However, I think we still don’t listen to our gut feeling enough. Wait for it, because here are 10 of my favorite quotes on trusting your intuition.
My top 10 favourite intuition quotes
Read on for quotes on trusting your intuition. 10 of my favourite intuition quotes:
I.
“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
Source: Dean Koontz
II.
“I believe in intuitions and inspirations…I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.”
Source: Albert Einstein
III.
V.
“Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion.”
Source: Steve Jobs in the New York Times.
IV.
“I don’t think that you’re born with gut [instinct], a gut matures and gets better and better over time, the struggle that most people have is learning to listen to it.”
IV.
This feeling, this little whisper from deep inside your brain, may contain far more information – both facts and impressions – than you’re likely to obtain from hours of analysis.”
Source: Roy Rowan
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.”
Source: Albert Einstein. As outlined in the October edition of 2025
III.
“Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.”
Source: Florence Scovel Shinn
III.
“Intuition means exactly what it sounds like, in-tuition! An inner tutor or teaching and learning mechanism that takes us forward daily. It is a resource that, where recognized, has infinite potential.”
Source: Seth Godin
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“The mind is an instrument, don’t let it play you”
Source: Giselle Bundschen
Bonus quotes on trusting your intuition:
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Source: Thoreau
Last note
These were the intuition quotes I’ve collected for you. Intuition is a powerful skill that needs to be worked. I’m curious to hear your thoughts on it, and if you have quotes on trusting your intuition yourself, please let me know by sending me an email.
At first, when do you think your intuition is speaking to you? How did you recognize it? Leave your answer below in the comments.
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