Quotes About Reason And Instinct

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

Jean-Philippe Rameau

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

Stanley Baldwin

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

Samuel Butler

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

Jonathan Schell

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#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. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

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

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Thiruman Archunan

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

Christopher Paolini

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. 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

#28. 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

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

Dan Barker

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. 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

#33. 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

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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