Instincts

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INSTINCTS: Instinct is untaught ability. (Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and educationalist who founded Mind, the first ever journal of psychology and analytical philosophy, and was the leading figure in establishing and applying the scientific method to psychology, 1818-1903)

INSTINCTS: Instinct is the nose of the mind. (Madame de Girardin, French author, 1804-1855)

INSTINCTS: If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. (Rollo May, U.S. author, psychologist, and associated with existential philosophy, 1909-1994)

INSTINCTS: The truth of a thing is the feel of it, not the think of it. (Stanley Kubrick, U.S. film director, screenwriter, and producer, 1928-1999)

INSTINCTS: Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882)

INSTINCTS: Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you. (Saint Bartholomew, born in Galilee and one of the twelve apostles of Jesus)

INSTINCTS: Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. (John Sterling, Scottish author, 1806-1844)

INSTINCTS: A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain. (Llewelyn Powers, U.S. lawyer and politician, 1836-1908)

INSTINCTS: Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses. (Latin proverb)

INSTINCTS: Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. (Denis Diderot, French Enlightenment philosopher and art critic, 1713-1784)

INSTINCTS: Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. (Don Marquis, U.S. humorist, journalist, and playwright, 1878-1937)