Instinct Quotes

“Subconscious”

“Instinct is untaught ability.”

“Instinct is the nose of the mind.”

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”

“Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct.”

“Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.”

“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”

“Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.”

“Instinct”

“instinct”

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

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

“Instinct and reason how can we divide?
'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.”

“Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunkeln Drange
Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst.”

“Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.”

“Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts that are not within their control.”

“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.”

“Reasoning at every step he treads,
Man yet mistakes his way,
While meaner creatures, whom instinct leads,
Are rarely known to stray.”

“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!”

“A fierce unrest seethes at the core
Of all existing things:
It was the eager wish to soar
That gave the gods their wings.
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There throbs through all the worlds that are
This heart-beat hot and strong,
And shaken systems, star by star,
Awake and glow in song.”