Ambrose Bierce Quotes

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Reason we call that faculty innate in us of discovering laws and applying them with thought.

I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.

I think that the best things come from thought, without thinking. I think that's the smartest use of the intelligence that we all have.

I'm mentally agile.

I haven't got an old man's brain. I have got a sharp mind and enjoy doing what I do.

Intuition is what makes the best players.

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

O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet my song comes native with the warmth. O fret not after knowledge - I have none, and yet the Evening listens.

That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas.... They could be giving you the best advice you ever had.

The primary wisdom is intuition.

Intuition is critical in virtually everything you do. But, without relentless preparation and execution, it is meaningless.

The success of everything depends on intuition, the capacity of seeing things in a way which afterwards proves to be true, even though it cannot be established at the moment, and of grasping the essential fact, discarding the unessential, even though one can give no account of the principles by which this is done.

The one natural gift I have is easy access. That's the only natural I gift I have at all. You have to have that, the third eye.

I'm not the smartest dude in the world. (After all... I picked a career in acting.)

Brains first and then Hard Work.

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

This is the nature of genius, to be able to grasp the knowable even when no one else recognizes that it is present.

There is a language that is beyond words. If I can learn to decipher that language without words, I will be able to decipher the world.

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts?

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young.

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

Was anything in the world truer than that intuitive leap of the heart?