| Author |
Quotes |
| A C Benson | I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. |
| Alexander Bain | Instinct is untaught ability. |
| Alexander Pope | How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! |
| Alexander Pope | But honest instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Alexander Pope | But honest instinct comes a volunteer, Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Alexander Pope | How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! |
| Alexander Pope | But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Alexander Pope | But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. |
| Charles Darwin | The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. |
| Francis H Bradley | Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. |
| Francis W Newman | The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. |
| Jean de la Fontaine | 'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. |
| Katherine F Gerould | Simplicity is an acquired taste Mankind left free instinctively complicates life |
| Matthew Prior | Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. |
| Richard Monckton Milnes | Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares. |
| Rita Mae Brown | Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. |
| Van Hartmann | Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. |
| William Wordsworth | A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. |
| William Shakespeare | Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. |
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