Instinct Quotes - Page 8

• Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

  E. Michael Burke

  Success, Teacher, Appreciation

  "100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind" by Steven Aitchison, (p. 74), 2009.

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• Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.

  Ken Danby

  Judgment, Conscious, Nurture

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  You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

  Alan Alda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Alan Alda's commencement speech at Connecticut College in New London, www.graduationwisdom.com. 1980.

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• Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

  H. G. Wells

  Life Changing, Science, Needs

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.48, Sparklesoup LLC

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• Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Wonderful

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.194, Penguin

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Intuition, Criminal Mind, Speak

  "Fictional character: Aaron Hotchner". "Criminal Minds". Season 4, Episode 6: "The Instincts", www.imdb.com. November 05, 2008.

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• Intuition is seeing with the soul.

  Dean Koontz

  Soul, Intuition, Seeing

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• For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

  Mark Twain

  Real, Knowledge, Intuition

  Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.49, Chartwell

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• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

  William James

  Intuition, Doe, Logic

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• An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Agents

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• Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

  George Santayana

  Intuition, Reason, Wells

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.17, MIT Press

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• The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

  Isaac Newton

  Powerful, Science, Skills

  Sir Isaac Newton (1730). “Opticks, Or a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light”, p.379

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• Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

  Denis Diderot

  Animal, Men, Reason

  John Hope Mason, Denis Diderot (1982). “The irresistible Diderot”

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• Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Intuition, Hunches, Clairvoyance

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• Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

  Florence Scovel Shinn

  Spiritual, Intuition, Doe

  Florence Scovel Shinn, Ruth L. Miller (2012). “The New Game of Life and How to Play It”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

  Stone Gossard

  Water, Want, Humans

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• Trust your instincts, and take control.

  John Houston

  Motivation, Trust Your Instincts, Take Control

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• The instinct of the people is right.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Soul, Stronger

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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• Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Reverence, Superstitious, Unworthy

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.86, e-artnow

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• Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can't put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.

  Naveen Jain

  Trust, Real, Heart

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  Ovid

  Intuition, Reason, Impulse

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• Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Years, House

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.289

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• Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who possesses a higher faculty, abuses it, and therefore goes blundering on.

  Robert Southey

  Men, Bird, Abuse

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas Marc Or Colloquies on the Progress und Prospects of Sceuly, 1”, p.153

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• Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

  John Ray

  Animal, Use, Weapons

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