William H. Gates, Sr. famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

The marvellous instinct with which women are usually credited seems too often to desert them on the only occasions when it would be of any real use. One would say it was there for trivialities only, since in a crisis they are usually dense, fatally doing the wrong thing. It is hardly too much to say that most domestic tragedies are caused by the feminine intuition of men and the want of it in women.
Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody.
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
I don't rely on my figure to sell records.
Who am I? If this once I were to rely on a proverb, then perhaps everything would amount to knowing whom I 'haunt.'
That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.
All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.

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