Quote#Wisdom
Instinct is untaught ability
Quote byAlexander Bain · 1818–1903
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Alexander Bain, The Senses and the Intellect (1855), p. 256; in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 397-98..
English (original)
Instinct is untaught ability.
— Alexander Bain
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