Instinctive Wisdom Quotes

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

Nature without learning is like a blind man; learning without Nature, like a maimed one; practice without both, incomplete. As in agriculture a good soil is first sought for, then a skilful husbandman, and then good seed; in the same way nature corresponds to the soil, the teacher to the husbandman, precepts and instruction to the seed.

I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

The best advice is essentially that thing in the back of your mind that you really aren't sure of, and when you start to hear other people bring up the same concerns, you say, "Okay, let's address that."

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.

Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.