Psychology Quote by Scott Chapman

“Instinct's aware of reflex when mind ain't yet.”

— Toba Beta

He felt a spasm of excitement because he knew instinctively who it was, or at least knew who it was he wanted it to…

— Douglas Adams

“In short, nothing is tucked away in the subconscious mind except your instincts, like those of animals, and the power to guess.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Instincts are things that you know but can not, as of yet, articulate”

— William James Moore

“Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.”

— Ayya Khema

“Sometimes we do things, without thinking, that make no sense to us until much later, and yet appear to have been prompted by the…

— Julien Green

“Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.”

— Sylvia Clare

“and I guess I believe instinct’s the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will.”

— Stephen King

“The parts of my mind that apply logic and understanding had somehow abandoned me, and something primitive and instinctual took control.”

— Danielle Rohr

“...the instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.”

— Robert Macfarlane

“Why was it that thoughts and plans always made more sense when confined to one's mind than when they exited one's mouth?”

— Karen Witemeyer

“Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind.”

— Joseph Goldstein