Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

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

Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.

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

The truth of a thing is in the feel of it, not in the think of it.

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

I just go with my gut.

Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

You have to trust yourself, not research. Not testing. Testing helps, but you have to trust your own taste. If your taste says something isn't any good, don't let research rationalize that out of its own truth.

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.

I am someone that relies on my gut feeling.

I think there is a spiritual scent in us which feels mischief coming, as they say birds scent storms.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

The heart is an astrologer that always divines the truth.

In each of us, there is a little voice that knows exactly which way to go. And I learned very early to listen to it, even though it has caused so much grief and havoc, and I think that is the only answer.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

I think a lot of us know when it's our time. No matter what profession you're in, you get a feeling. If you worked on it long enough, you know when it's ready.

I've always heard that you'll know, but I never understood it. With Peter, we even broke up after we dated for a year, for two or three months, but I still knew. I knew there was something different about this union. Even through the hard times, it was like "How are we going to get through this?

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Your heart, Mary Karr, he'd say. His pen touched my sternum, and it felt for all the world like the point of a dull spear as he said, Your heart knows what your head don't. Or won't.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

There is something in us that is wiser than our head.

The primary wisdom is intuition.

Whatever a woman's reason may say, her feelings tell her the truth.