Quotes About Instinct And Reason

#1. The truth is that anxiety is at once a function of biology and philosophy, body and mind, instinct and reason, personality and culture.

Scott Stossel

#2. I know there's no way that I deserve you," he said, cutting her off, his voice a half whisper. "We make no sense together. We are so different that our involvement should be illegal, but that doesn't change my instinct on this. I sense we're connected, and for a reason.

Sarah Noffke

#3. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

Stanley Baldwin

#4. My brain is telling me to stop staring at him, but for some reason I can't. It's almost ... instinct ... to keep on looking at him.

David Estes

#5. What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

Marty Rubin

#6. If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such happiness than reason.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Humanity is a cage, and our puritanical sensibilities comprise the bars. We are confined by our own reason and intellect, and yet most of us don't even know it.

Nenia Campbell

#8. Our reading is always urged on by the instinct to complete what we read, which is, for some reason, one of the most universal and profound of our instincts. You

Julia Briggs

#9. Reason Has No Strength When Up Against Instinct

Anonymous

#10. Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Emily Blackwell

#11. The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort of instinct, often without being able to give a reason for it.

Pierre-Simon Laplace

#12. Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Denis Diderot

#13. I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

A. C. Benson

#14. Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.

Jonathan Schell

#15. Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.

Anne Fortier

#16. The shadow acts on instinct, not reason.

Erin Kellison

#17. To live is like to love
all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it

Samuel Butler

#18. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow.

Oscar Wilde

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

Jodi Picoult

#20. Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.

Karen Joy Fowler

#21. instinct was reason in a hurry;

Anne Fortier

#22. Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

Immanuel Kant

#23. Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

Honore De Balzac

#24. The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#25. There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Joseph Addison

#26. We should challenge the relativism that tells us there is no right or wrong, when every instinct of our mind knows it is not so, and is a mere excuse to allow us to indulge in what we believe we can get away with. A world without values quickly becomes a world without value.

Jonathan Sacks

#27. It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Mario Puzo

#28. Hume argued powerfully that human reason is fundamentally similar to that of the other animals, founded on instinct rather than quasi-divine insight into things.

David Hume

#29. Think without thinking, so that you act as if out of instinct and not reason.

Christopher Paolini

#30. Art works to satisfy the instinct and the science works to satisfy the reason.

Thiruman Archunan

#31. When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Jean-Philippe Rameau

#32. Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

John Ray

#33. Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

Louis Untermeyer

#34. Reason is the servant of instinct.

Clarence Day

#35. Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

Samuel Johnson

#36. The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#37. The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.

John Donne

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

Charles Darwin

#39. Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#40. Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Theodore Dreiser

#41. Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#42. Instinct ensures animals to have society. Reason ensures society to have animals

Thiruman Archunan

#43. I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.

Anthony Trollope

#44. Intuition is not a single way of knowing - it's our ability to hold space for uncertainty and our willingness to trust the many ways we've developed knowledge and insight, including instinct, experience, faith
and reason.

Brene Brown

#45. The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Theda Bara

#46. Our most basic emotional need is not to fall in love but to be genuinely loved by another, to know a love that grows out of reason and choice, not instinct.

Gary Chapman

#47. Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Alexander Pope

#48. Simplicity is the most sophisticated complexion and the reason why man begins with it, is because that is the instinct which she/he was born with. It is the mark of purity (contrary to Jew Covenant and Roman Baptism beliefs) which were given to her/him by God in the womb.

Ibrahim Ibrahim

#49. The pleasure of satisfying a savage instinct, undomesticated by the ego, is uncomparably much more intense than the one of satisfying a tamed instinct. The reason is becoming the enemy that prevents us from a lot of possibilities of pleasure.

Sigmund Freud

#50. What fills the gap created by a loss of faith is not reason but instinct.

Marty Rubin

#51. If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Will Cuppy

#52. A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against

Jean Chretien

#53. We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#54. What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Ovid

#55. Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.

Mason Cooley

#56. Mere Morality can be summarized as: using instinct, law, and reason as guides, try to act with the intention of minimizing harm.

Dan Barker

#57. As soon as I kiss him I know that I love him with a blind instinct beyond all reason, with all his defects.

Anais Nin

#58. I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as the instinct of virtue, & that our having such an instinct is reason enough for scientific researches without any practical results ever ensuing from them.

Charles Darwin

#59. There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a search; it can come when we least look for it, just as it denies itself when we pursue it too earnestly and with pathetic eagerness.

Martin E. Marty

#60. If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.

John Le Carre

#61. The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

James Thurber

#62. It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

W. Somerset Maugham

#63. You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.

Becca Fitzpatrick

#64. Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

Charles Dickens

#65. Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

Bette Howland

#66. You can't reason against it. Even if it wasn't in our culture, there would still be an instinct to protest the defenseless, regardless of whether they're female or male, young or old.

Sarah J. Maas

#67. Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Francis Bacon

#68. The conscience is a right mix of instinct, reason and culture. The conscience itself is not a truth but it has an ability to access the truth. But the very conscience is assembled only by the reason.

Thiruman Archunan

#69. Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#70. Inertia is the most powerful force in business. Things stay just as they are until something - brute force, reason, fear, enlightened self-interest, the survival instinct - effects movement.

Patrick G. Riley

#71. Those entrapped by the herd instinct are drowned in the deluges of history. But there are always the few who observe, reason, and take precautions, and thus escape the flood. For these few gold has been the asset of last resort.

Antony C. Sutton