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Instinct

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Instinct

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.

Newman, Francis W.

There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Addison, Joseph

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

Lowell, James Russell

The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.

Osler, Sir William

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Kant, Immanuel

Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes by instinct.

Cicero

If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.

Einstein, Albert

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Girardin, Madame de

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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts.

Rita Mae Brown

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There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

Malcolm Gladwell

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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Thoreau, Henry David

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An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis. We call intuition here the sympathy by which one is transported into the interior of an object in order to coincide with what there is unique and consequently inexpressible in it. Analysis, on the contrary, is the operation which reduces the object to elements already known.

Bergson, Henri L.

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It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

Malcolm Gladwell

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If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

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