intuition quotes

   What do the facts we know about a man amount to? Only two things we can know of him, and this by pure soul-intuition: we can know if he is true to the flame of life and love which is inside his heart, or if he is false to it.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Kangaroo, ch.7.

The life-efficiency and adaptability of the computer must be questioned. Its judicious use depends upon the availability of its human employers quite literally to keep their own heads, not merely to scrutinize the programming but to reserve for themselves the right of ultimate decision. No automatic system can be intelligently run byautomatonsor by people who dare not assert human intuition, human autonomy, human purpose.

- Lewis Mumford
  The Myth of the Machine.

All are deceptions, substitutes for the hard job of using reason and industry and intuition and compassion to solve even a little bit of the muddle with humaneness and awe for the natural world and the complexity of human beings.

- SirAngus FrankJohnstone Wilson
  Letter to David Farrer, his publisher, Jul. Quoted in Margaret Drabble AngusWilsonA Biography (1995).