Instinct

Famous quotes containing the word instinct:

“It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“So I soon made up my mind about the poets too: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled them to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“He that but fears the thing he would not know
Hath by instinct knowledge from others’ eyes
That what he feared is chanced.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)