instinctual knowledge Quotes

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.

Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies

I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

Every ant knows the formula of its ant-hill, every bee knows the formula of its beehive. They know it in their own way, not in our way. Only humankind does not know its own formula.

Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things.

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

I've learned about employee relations; I've learned about following your instinct. One of the biggest mistakes you can follow is not following your instincts, you know? A lot of times your instincts will tell you what to do if you have a good one. Now, if your instincts are terrible, then you ask for advice. But if you have good instincts, you definitely have to follow them, or else you regret them.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

The young of human beings compare so poorly in original efficiency with the young of many of the lower animals, that even the powers needed for physical sustentation have to be acquired under tuition. How much more, then, is this the case with respect to all the technological, artistic, scientific, and moral achievements of humanity!

Nature is stronger than education.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Intuition is the only true guide in life.

...his wartime experience had taught him to trust his instincts, even though he'd never been sure where they'd come from.

by taking notice of those feelings and images that seemed to be in my blood and bones rather than in my head, I had found myself able to behave, not less reasonably, but more so. Apparently it was as much a false extreme to try and live by reason alone, leaving the passions out of count, as to ignore reason and put passion in its place as the guiding force of life.

Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.