Instinct Quotes

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

For if in any manner we can stimulate this instinct, new passages are opened for us into nature, the mind flows into and through things hardest and highest, and the metamorphosis is possible.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

Systems die; instincts remain.

The old man nodded. “Trust your instincts. Life teaches us much of which we are not aware. Our senses perceive things that do not impinge upon our awareness, but they lie dormant within us and affect our recognition of people and conditions. But you must be patient. In impatience lies danger.

The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.

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

As a rule, the less a person knows, the surer he is, and he gets it by instinct, and it can’t be disputed, for I don’t know what is going on in another man’s mind. I have no such instinct.