Instinct

Famous quotes containing the word instinct:

“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.)

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)

“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)