Unconscious Wisdom Quotes

There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Truth has power. And if we all gravitate toward similar ideas, maybe we do so because those ideas are true...written deep within us. And when we hear the truth, even if we don't understand it, we feel that truth resonate within us...vibrating with our unconscious wisdom. Perhaps the truth is not learned by us, but rather, the truth is re-called...re-membered...-re-cognized...as that which is already inside us.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most valuable asset. My own instincts have repeatedly guided me against the grain of logic and probability. When I have trusted and followed their direction, they have never been wrong. I don't know how or why. But I know that every significant experience-positive or negative-sharpens them and makes them more accurate.

Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

Sometimes I feel like I must be hinting at this deep well of knowledge when, really, I just skim off the surface.

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

If you don't know things, you know, you just go by your instinct.

Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.