Intelligence Quote by Wilkie Martin

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

— William James Moore

“We had been assured by our elders that intelligence was a family trait. All my kin and forebears were people of substantial or remarkable…

— Marilynne Robinson

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

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“For instinct dictates our duty and the intellect supplies us with pretexts for evading it.”

— Marcel Proust

“what people often thought of as instinct, was actually the unconscious brain trying to tell the logical mind that there was something happening which…

— Scott Chapman

“Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind and finds the readiest responses.”

— Amos Bronson Alcott

“Emotionally intelligent people trust their instincts and can identify how certain thoughts, feelings, people, and situations make them feel.”

— Susan C. Young

“You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the one skill…

— Mark Haddon

“After years of pretending at emotions, he'd grown to appreciate their mystery, their chaos and randomness. Sometimes they were predictable, one-dimensional, almost stupid -…

— Kim White

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

— Danielle Rohr

“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

“I found myself regarding him as an isolated phenomenon, a brain without a heart, as deficient in human sympathy as he was pre-eminent in…

— Arthur Conan Doyle