66 Inkling Quotes
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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. — Frank Capra
Intuition (is) perception via the unconscious — Carl Jung
Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it. — Henri Bergson
Nature is always hinting at us. It hints over and over again. And suddenly we take the hint. — Robert Frost
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. — E. Michael Burke
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. — Joyce Brothers
Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations. — Carl Jung
Intuitive knowledge is an illumination of the soul, whereby it beholds in the light of God those things which it pleases Him to reveal to us by a direct impression of divine clearness. — Rene Descartes
Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. — Alexis Carrel
I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am. — Albert Einstein
The thought: A logical inquiry — Gottlob Frege
You've been thinking about something without willing to for a long time...Then, all of a sudden, the problem is opened to you in a flash and you suddenly see the answer. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
I've got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts. — Bill Watterson
The feeling of right or wrong is the beginning of wisdom. — Mencius
intuition is always right in at least two important ways; It is always in response to something. it always has your best interest at heart — Gavin de Becker
Short Inkling Quotes
- When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
- If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they — Sean O'Casey
- My first novel was a challenge to myself. No one had an inkling that I was working on it. — Vikas Swarup
- There are truths of which I have an inkling, but of most I have only a pencilling — Robert Breault
- All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings. — H. G. Wells
- The first inkling my husband had that I was thinking about suicide was when he checked my blog. — Ayelet Waldman
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 Carl Jung |
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 Frank Capra |
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 Henri Bergson |
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 Robert Frost |
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 Joyce Brothers |
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 Rene Descartes |
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More Inkling Quotes
God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp
What greatly attracted me - and it was the main line of advance of Cubism - was how to give material expression to this new space of which I had an inkling. So I began to paint chiefly still lifes, because in nature there is a tactile, I would almost say a manual space... that was the earliest Cubist painting - the quest for space. — Georges Braque
Persistent, internal inklings matched by external confirmation is often the way God directs believers into His will. — Priscilla Shirer
I don't suppose you do know precisely what you are after. I don't think in the creative process anyone quite knows. They have a vague idea - a beckoning, an inkling of some truth - it is only in the process that it comes to any clarity. — Lawren Harris
The success of the Inklings also helps us to see criticism in a positive light. There are, unfortunately, people who boost their own sense of importance by criticizing others as a matter of principle. Yet within this community, criticism was a mark of respect and commitment. — Alister E. McGrath
It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment. — Roger Penrose
Any such inklings were like a few scattered grains of truth dissolved in an ocean of nonsense, and were anyway generally inextricably bound up with patently paranoid ravings which served only to devalue the small amounts of sense and pertinence with which they were associated. — Iain Banks
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all. — William James
This seems to be advanced as the surest basis for our belief in the existence of gods, that there is no race so uncivilized, no one in the world so barbarous that his mind has no inkling of a belief in gods. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body. — Ben Lerner
Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like. — Noam Chomsky
I grew up with the idealistic notion that writing and literature were noble causes. I had no inkling, no sense of what I would eventually encounter in terms of people who weren't being sincere. I'm not saying that it happens always or a lot, but it happens enough that sometimes it makes me feel a little queasy. — Oscar Hijuelos
We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which his environment has no inkling. — Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald
Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer. — Franz Kafka
Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience. — Eudora Welty
A turning point in the public's perception of the building art came with the publication of Frank Lloyd Wright's 'An Autobiography' of 1932, a picaresque narrative that captivated many who hadn't the slightest inkling of what architects actually did. — Martin Filler
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air! — Camille Pissarro
America is still a government of the naive, for the naive, and by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country. — Christopher Morley
If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose. — Sean O'Casey
He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling. — Sarah Dessen
What give all that is tragic, whatever its form, the characteristic of the sublime, is the first inkling of the knowledge that the world and life can give no satisfaction, and are not worth our investment in them. The tragic spirit consists in this. Accordingly it leads to resignation. — Arthur Schopenhauer
God is Love, we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word. — W. H. Auden
I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music. — Vashti Bunyan
When I read the book [The Adderall Diaries] I loved it, and I maybe had an inkling that there was a lot of good material in there. I didn't quite know at the time how to adapt it into a film, but I hoped I would figure it out one day. — James Franco
There are just long gaps where I can't find a point of insertion, I can't find a good opening line, I can't find a mood that I want to write into. But once I do, once a line falls out of the air, or I get a little inkling of a subject and I recognize that, it's like the sense that a game has started. — Billy Collins
When we know that the cause of something is in ourselves, and that we (ourselves) are one of the few things in the universe that we have the right and ability to change, we begin to get a sense of the choices we really do have, an inkling of the power we have, a feeling of being in charge... of our lives, of our future, of our dreams. — Roger Delano Hinkins
Most actors hate readthroughs - they're exposing themselves before they're ready to, and before they've bonded. But I love them because they give us all the first inkling of what the whole show is going to be like, how each part affects every other part, and we won't see that again until it's all edited together. — Andrew Davies
I felt the first inkling of a thing that presently grew quite clear in my mind, that oppressed me for many days, a sense of dethronement, a persuasion that I was no longer a master, but an animal among the animals, under the Martian heel.With us it would be as with them, to lurk and watch, to run and hide; the fear and empire of man had passed away. — H. G. Wells
Secrets are always never as well kept as people think they are. More often than not when you reveal something, especially the bigger it is, people always had some inkling, or they're like, "Well, yeah, of course." — James Scott
Whoever has not arrived at the clear insight that there might be greatness entirely outside his own sphere for which he has no understanding, whoever does not have at least a dim inkling in which area of the human spirit this greatness might be situated: he is within his own sphere either without genius, or he has not educated himself up to the point of the classical attitude. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
At the [teenage] time, I did have an inkling of my sexuality. And I had an inkling that I was different from other people in ways beyond my sexuality. But I didn't get into music because I thought, Oh, these people will understand me. — Michael Stipe
any fair-minded person will agree that humanity hasn't the faintest inkling, at this time, of the powers and laws that will, sometime, be known and used. — Margery Wilson
The pilot channel is doing what was expected. It is abating dust and giving us an inkling of what the area will look like when it is restored . — John Wallace
Good art means the ability of any one man to pin down in some permanent and intelligible medium a sort of idea of what he sees in Nature that nobody else sees. In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in interpretative reproduction or symbolism, some inkling of what only the artist himself could possibly see in the actual objective scene itself. — H. P. Lovecraft
Love is woman's eternal spring and man's eternal fall. It is a game at which men must play against stacked cards, and without the slightest inkling of the trump. — Helen Rowland
The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them. — Reggie Watts
It is only in Samadhi that you'll begin to get an inkling of who you are; and finally, it is only in nirvana that this perfect truth will become clear. — Frederick Lenz
The television reports gave me my first inkling of a world beyond my own, a world that wasn't fair or equal, a world of poverty, war, disease and famine. But I also realized that this state of affairs wasn't necessarily a given, and that we have it in our power to make a difference, to make the world a better place for all. We have that choice. One thing's for sure, though - if we do nothing, it will be a given. — Chrissie Wellington
We believe that whatever feels at first like joy is not. Or is, but will not last. Or should not last. We feel so sure of this that we will undermine our own inklings of joy, blunting the pain we think awaits. — Anneli Rufus
It is hardly possible to estimate how many marriages fail to prosper or are actually ruined because the man lacks any inkling of the art of love. — Hermann Graf Keyserling
This common and unfortunate fact of the lack of adequate presentation of basic ideas and motivations of almost any mathematical theory is probably due to the binary nature of mathematical perception. Either you have no inkling of an idea, or, once you have understood it, the very idea appears so embarrassingly obvious that you feel reluctant to say it aloud. — Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov
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