Believe Quote by A. C. Benson

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

— Charles Darwin

Reason is the servant of instinct.

— Clarence Day

The opposition of instinct and reason is mainly illusory. Instinct, intuition, or insight is what first leads to the beliefs which subsequent reason confirms…

— Bertrand Russell

How often do we contradict the right rules of reason in the whole course of our lives! Reason itself is true and just, but…

— Jonathan Swift

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not…

— C. S. Lewis

For faith, properly understood, does not contradict reason in the least; indeed...it is nothing less than the will to keep one's mind fixed precisely…

— Edward Feser

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

— Daisy Whitney

Reason offers us many possibilities at once. Intuition infallibly chooses the best. Remember this and you cannot err; you will always make the right…

— Arthur Japin

If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason.

— Jodi Picoult

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

— F. H. Bradley

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

— Jerry Seinfeld