Instinct Quote by John Sterling

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

— Jim Butcher

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

— Delphine de Girardin

Instinct is untaught ability

— Alexander Bain

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

— Agatha Christie

There is a certain point of unity within the self, and between the self and its world, certain complicity and magnetic mating, a certain…

— Michael Novak

“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.”

— Will Cuppy

I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.

— Michka Assayas

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

— Gloria Steinem

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

— Laurette Taylor

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

— Anonymous

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

— Jonathan Cainer