A person’s instinct is swifter and more exact than his or her intellectual recognition
Rav Kook identifies three levels of knowledge: instinctive, intellectual, and intuitive. Paradoxically, the lowest level, the instinctive, is in some way akin to the highest, the intuitive. (This is discussed in more detail in Poetry of Being by Yosef ben Shlomo, Chapter 3, "The Rational and the Irrational.")
One would be mistaken to assume that instinct is the simple, primitive part of a person and that in the process of further development and progress it will wither away. On the contrary - in order to become true harbingers of the culture of the future, we must not stray from our instinct and intuition, but develop and attend to them. This applies not only to the higher realms (the striving for the divine), but also to the "middle" realms (the striving for knowledge, morality, and the improvement of the material side of life on both the individual and national level). The most outstanding people in each of these areas are those with strong instinct and intuition.