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Instinct is untaught ability.
Author: Alexander Bain
Source: Senses and Intellect (p. 256)
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A good man, through obscurest aspirations
Has still an instinct of the one true way.
[Ger., Ein guter Mensch, in seinem dunkeln Drange,
Ist sich des rechten Weges sohl bewusst.]
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Source: Faust--Prolog in Himmel--Der Herr (l. 88)
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'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
[Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (I, 8)
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A fierce unrest seethes at the core
Of all existing things:
It was the eager wish to soar
That gave the gods their wings.
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There throbs through all the worlds that are
This heart-beat not and strong,
And shaken systems, star by star,
Awake and glow in song.
Author: Donald Marquis (D.R.P. Marquis) ("Don Marquis")
Source: Unrest
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Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them,
Like instincts, unawares.
Author: Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Source: The Men of Old
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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!
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. I, l. 221)
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Essay on Man (ep. III, l. 85)
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Instinct and reason how can we divide?
'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride.
Author: Matthew Prior
Source: Solomon on the Vices of the World (bk. I, l. 231)
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Instinct is stronger than upbringing.
Author: Proverb
Source: (Irish)
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Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at II, iv)
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.
Author: William Wordsworth
Source: Alas! What Boots the Long Laborious Quest?
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
Author: William Cowper
Source: None
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
Author: Rita Mae Brown
Source: None
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Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.
Author: Van Hartmann
Source: None
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The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
Author: Charles Darwin
Source: None
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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.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: None
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I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
Author: A. C. Benson
Source: None
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Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
Author: Francis H. Bradley
Source: None
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The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
Author: Francis W. Newman
Source: None
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Author: Katherine F. Gerould
Source: None
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