INSTINCT QUOTES II

quotations about instinct

Gut instincts are always so hit and miss. When it hits, you're like, "Wow, I totally knew that was gonna happen!" But when you miss, it's like, "I can't believe I was so stupid!"

CHESTER BENNINGTON

"The Lost Interview", Revolver, 2001

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As man cultivates his intellectual faculties, he learns to mistrust his instincts.

JULIUS FURST

attributed, Day's Collacon


What man calls instinct in a beast is more excellent than reason in man.

THEODORE ZWINGER

attributed, Day's Collacon


That which is reason in man is instinct in animals.

J. C. WOLFF

attributed, Day's Collacon


Intuition is a suspicious instinct that makes a woman distrust the man she trusts.

EVAN ESAR

20,000 Quips & Quotes


Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of all the rest. By the very act of listening to one rather than to others we have already prejudged the case.

C. S. LEWIS

The Abolition of Man

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'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.

JEAN DE LA FONTAINE

Fables


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

SIR W. HAMILTON

attributed, Day's Collacon


There is no instinct in nature without an object or purpose.

KAROLINE WOLZOGEN

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every creature hath instinct.

JEREMY TAYLOR

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Instinct is untaught ability.

ALEXANDER BAIN

The Senses and the Intellect


Instinct and reason are the difference between man and the brute.

GEORG BENEDICT WINER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

AMOS BRONSON ALCOTT

Table Talk


Men envy the beasts the instinct which guides them.

ST. PIERRE

attributed, Day's Collacon


To what extent Instinct is implanted in animals in consequence of the education received by many generations of their predecessors, is a point to which the attention of the curious might be profitably directed.

RICHARD WHATELY

On Instinct


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

MICHAEL BURKE

attributed, 100 Ways to Develop Your Mind: The Psychology of the Mind


Instinct is both the inferior and superior of reason.

C. WINTRINGHAM

attributed, Day's Collacon


Reason is the judgment formed by experience; instinct is judgment ready-made.

P. YVON

attributed, Day's Collacon


The spirit finds a way to be born.
Instinct seeks for ways to survive.

TOBA BETA

Betelgeuse Incident


Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

JOSEPH ADDISON

"Instinct in Animals"

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