Believe Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

— F. H. Bradley

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

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

— Charles Darwin

Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate.

— Fay Weldon

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

“For at least a century, psychologists and philosophers have suggested that our urge to explain the world is analogous to our urge to populate…

— Kathryn Schulz

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

— Agatha Christie

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

— Delphine de Girardin

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

— Jodi Picoult

“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly. The fundamental conceptions of psychology are practically very clear to us, but theoretically…

— William James

Its the difference between instinct and intuition,

— Liev Schreiber