Henri Poincare Quotes

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

The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

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

I just go with my gut.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

I am a very instinct-driven person.

I heard that your subconscious is on the right side. I always shut my right eye when I play, or both eyes. I feel like you go to a deeper place in your subconscious, and you tell the stories that are more deeply within you.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

I learned over the years to trust that the subconscious is going to provide guidance.

If you cannot always elicit a straight answer from the unconscious brain, how can you access its knowledge? Sometimes the trick is merely to probe what your gut is telling you. So the next time a friend laments that she cannot decide between two options, tell her the easiest way to solve her problem: flip a coin. She should specify which option belongs to heads and which to tails, and then let the coin fly. The important part is to assess her gut feeling after the coin lands. If she feels a subtle sense of relief at being "told" what to do by the coin, that's the right choice for her.

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.

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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

First impressions are often signals from the deep that we should credit oftener than we do.

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things.

I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.

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.

Learning to trust our intuition is an art form, and like all other art forms, it takes practice to perfect.

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

Behind your thoughts and feelings, my brother, there stands a mighty ruler. an unknown sage - whose name is self. In yourt body he dwells; he is your body. There is more reason in your body than in your best wisdom.

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.

Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.