Hunches Quotes

“Let the panther of our imagination not be encaged by the mechanics of despotic thinking short-circuiting our hunches and blocking our intuition. ("Into a new life")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings.”
― Anthony Liccione

“We would never call inexplicable little insights 'hunches,' for fear of drawing the universe's attention. But they happened, and you knew you had been in the proximity of one that had come through if you saw a detective kiss his or her fingers and touch his or her chest where a pendant to Warsha, patron saint of inexplicable inspirations, would, theoretically, hang.”
― China Miéville, The City & the City

“Understanding was coming so fast, it seemed to bypass thought.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

“Don't go against your inner knowing. Just don't. Trust yourself.”
― Maria Erving

“Knowledge comes from imagination, observation, action, and experience; and science is a time-honoured method for turning guesses and hunches into verifiable facts; into shiny new pieces of knowledge.”
― Jen Fraser, CopyCat: How to Escape Status Quo Thinking and Lead the Field

“Some of our hunches are RIGHT
and some of them are WRONG.
The only way to tell
which is which
is to FOLLOW the hunch and
check it up.”
― Lillian R. Lieber, The Education of T.C. Mits: What modern mathematics means to you

“From where does poetry come?
From the heart's intelligence
from a hunch about the unknown
or from a rose in the desert?
The personal is not personal
and the universal not universal”
― Mahmoud Darwish, جدارية