No, they don’t. They can act on intuition — which is very different to impulse. Intuition comes from the unconscious mind where we have stored all the knowledge we have collected. Acting on impulse would be acting without consideration

Also, highly intellugent people have often sorted through a condiderable amount of information ling before an event happens. So when it does, they know what to do.

It might look like impulse from the outside. It isn’t.