Instinct Quote by John Sterling Download Open image “Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.” — John Sterling ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instinct Intelligence Philosophy of Mind
An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. — Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet Copy Share Image
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.” — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I've always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out. — Michka Assayas Copy Share Image
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Like earth, awake, and warm, and bright With joy the spirit moves and burns; So up to thee! O Fount of Light! Our light… — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Toil, feel, think, hope; you will be sure to dream enough before you die, without arranging for it. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Be busy in trading, receiving, and giving, for life is too good to be wasted in living. — John Sterling Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
