Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Instincts

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist

Instinct is untaught ability.
Alexander Bain (1818–1903) Scottish Empirical Philosopher, Psychologist

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator

Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.
Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936) Italian Dramatist, Novelist, Short Story Writer, Author

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Henri Frederic Amiel (1821–81) Swiss Moral Philosopher, Poet, Critic

Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman (1801–90) British Theologian, Poet

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson (1859–1941) French Philosopher, Evolutionist

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 (1713–84) French Philosopher, Writer

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts—only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch (1940–2023) American Actress, Singer

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.
Peter Cooper

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity … I can be sure that I am right.
Federico Fellini (1920–93) Italian Filmmaker

It is the heart which experiences God, not the reason.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) French Writer

Well-bred instinct meets reason half-way.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

I go by instinct … I don’t worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand (b.1942) American Musician, Actor, Songwriter

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
Gerald Jampolsky (b.1925) American Psychiatrist

It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–47) French Moralist, Essayist, Writer

If you have always done it that way, it’s probably wrong.
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.
Soren Kierkegaard (1813–55) Danish Philosopher, Theologian

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish Playwright

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.
William James (1842–1910) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.
Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.
Henry Miller (1891–1980) American Novelist

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.
Henry Clay (1777–1852) American Politician

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) Swedish Film and Stage Director

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