Definition of Innate

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Innate

Inborn; native; natural; as, innate vigor; innate eloquence.

Originating in, or derived from, the constitution of the intellect, as opposed to acquired from experience; as, innate ideas. See A priori, Intuitive.

Joined by the base to the very tip of a filament; as, an innate anther.

To cause to exit; to call into being.

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Innate Quotations

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

Man is born passionate of body, but with an innate though secret tendency to the love of Good in his main-spring of Mind. But God help us all! It is at present a sad jar of atoms.
Lord Byron

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker

What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.
Jose Marti

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
Roger Bacon

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Samuel Butler

The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans seem to believe that they always should, may, and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.
Ivan Illich

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
Diana Vreeland

Innate Translations

innate in Dutch is ingeboren
innate in German is angeborene
innate in Spanish is innato

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