Instinct

"Instinct is untaught ability."

"I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason."

"Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, While meaner creatures, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray."

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

"Instinct is the nose of the mind."

"Ein guter Mensch in seinem dunkeln Drange Ist sich des rechten Weges wohl bewusst."

"Nous n'écoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les nôtres. Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu."

"The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?""

"A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings. * * * * * There throbs through all the worlds that are This heart-beat hot and strong, And shaken systems, star by star, Awake and glow in song."

"Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares."

"But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit."

"How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!"

"Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride."

"Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct."

"Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness."

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

"Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do. They are driven by instincts that are not within their control."

"A few strong instincts and a few plain rules."