Testimony in Niels Bohr : His Life and Work as Seen by His Friends and Colleagues (1967) edited by Stefan Rozental, p. 218; later in his own work, Niels Bohr's Times : In Physics, Philosophy, and Polity (1991)
Context: The first thing Bohr said to me was that it would only then be profitable to work with him if I understood that he was a dilettante. The only way I knew to react to this unexpected statement was with a polite smile of disbelief. But evidently Bohr was serious. He explained how he had to approach every new question from a starting point of total ignorance. It is perhaps better to say that Bohr's strength lay in his formidable intuition and insight rather than erudition.
“For wide learning and deep insight his judgments are, perhaps, unsurpassed.”
George Jessel (jurist) (1824–1883) British politician
Apsley Petre Peter, Analysis and Digest of the Decisions of Sir George Jessel http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1XoDAAAAQAAJ&q=%22george+jessel%22&dq=%22george+jessel%22&num=100&cd=2 (1883). <br class="br">About
Mani Madhava Chakyar (1899–1990) Indian actor
Source: Abhinaya and Netrābhinaya, L.S Rajagopalan, Mani Madhava Chakyar- A Titan of A Thespian, Sruti- India's premier Music and Dance magazine, August 1990 issue (71).
“Scientists work by a combination of intuition and insight in trying to understand a question.”
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan (1952) Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologist
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan interview: 'It takes courage to tackle very hard problems in science
Ramakrishna (1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
and there his search ends. Such, indeed is the search for Brahman.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 733
Peter F. Drucker (1909–2005) American business consultant
Source: 1930s- 1950s, The Practice of Management (1954), p. 157
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1910s, Our Knowledge of the External World (1914), p. 21
“More often than not, anger is actually an indication of weakness rather than of strength.”
Tenzin Gyatso (1935) spiritual leader of Tibet
Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888–1975) Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice President and the second President of India
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Context: Intuition is a distinct form of experience. Intuition is of a self-certifying character (svatassiddha). It is sufficient and complete. It is self-established (svatasiddha), self-evidencing (svāsaṃvedya), and self-luminous (svayam-prakāsa). Intuition entails pure comprehension, entire significance, complete validity. It is both truth-filled and truth-bearing Intuition is its own cause and its own explanation. It is sovereign. Intuition is a positive feeling of calm and confidence, joy and strength. Intuition is profoundly satisfying. It is peace, power and joy.
“We should hide our strength rather than put it on display.”
Feng Shih-kuan (1945) Taiwanese politician
Feng Shih-kuan (2016) cited in " Taiwan deploys jet fighters to monitor China's aircraft carrier http://focustaiwan.tw/news/aipl/201612270011.aspx" on Focus Taiwan, 27 December 2016
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XVII Flight
