Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All our progress is an unfolding, like a 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."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, essayist, philosopher, poet

Mae West

“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.”

- Mae West, actor and playwright

Blaise Pascal

"The heart has its own reasons which reason knows not of."

- Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, physicist

Billy Wilder

"Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's."

- Billy Wilder, filmmaker, journalist, screenwriter

Lord Byron

“There is no instinct like that of the heart.”

- Lord Byron, poet

Alan Alda

"The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

- Alan Alda, actor

Andre Gide

"The most decisive actions of our lives... are most often unconsidered actions"

- Andre Gide, author

Elizabeth George Speare

"The answer is in thy heart. Thee can always hear it, if thee listens for it."

- Elizabeth George Speare, author