Robert Graves Quotes

Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.

Intuition enlightens and so links up with pure thought. They together become an intelligence which is not simply of the brain, which does not calculate, but feels and thinks.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

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

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

Metaphorically speaking, of course, if I put a problem behind my pillow and fall asleep, very often because my brain went to sleep with that idea or the problem alive, very often in the middle of the night I wake up, and I wake up with a solution or with a direction of solution.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Dyslexia lends itself to original thinking, not rote formulas, because you can't do the formulas - you think up your own method based on intuition and instincts. Creativity is trial and error, trying to figure out a way to do something emotionally and intuitively.

Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think.

Most animals are pragmatic about mysteries: If they run across something they don't understand, all they care about is whether it's edible and whether it's dangerous. Humans, on the other hand, are drawn to the mystery for its own sake.

When I wake up, if I can't figure something out during the daytime and then wake up at 4 A.M., it's there immediately. I don't know if it's the subconscious mind working, but it just happens.

When I'm problem-solving with something, I have, effectively, a CAD program in my head that's like a room that has specific qualities to it that I go to some deal of effort to populate. Textures and smells, something like that.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside of the province of reason.

In the last resort, sheer insight is the greatest asset of all.

Your intuition is not the same thing as your mind. In fact, intuition is really the opposite of your mind - and you need to use BOTH in living your day-to-day life.

Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.

It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a period of subconscious incubation which could not be hurried and was if anything impeded by deliberate thinking.... Having, by a time of very intense concentration, planted the problem in my subconsciousness, it would germinate underground until, suddenly, the solution emerged with a blinding clarity, so that it only remained to write down what happened as if in a revelation.