Instinct Quotes · Page 25

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

— Samuel Reshevsky

“It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of instinct…”

— Sigmund Freud

My mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying!

— Lindsay Lohan

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

— Deepak Chopra

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals.

— Samuel Johnson

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't have a lot of physical comedy instincts. I'm more verbal.

— Reese Witherspoon

“No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its biological purpose, and no other instinct is so disconnected from its purpose.”

— Norman Doidge

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized…

— Henri Bergson

Intuition is like reading a word without having to spell it out. A child can't do that because it has had so…

— Agatha Christie

A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.

— Lloyd Paul Stryker

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need…

— Cornell Woolrich

The thing a drama school can't give you is instinct. It can sharpen instinct but that can't be taught, and you have…

— Gary Oldman

“She’s unhinged something inside of me. That primal instinct to possess and protect. And hell, if it doesn’t scare the shit out…

— C.M. Seabrook

I'm absolute attacking my own instinct for politeness, but I think I admire artists who just speak out or who are strong,…

— Stephen Fry

Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

By actually taking Sleepy Hollow and the Rip Van Winkle story, and finding the spirit of what was great about both of…

— Alex Kurtzman

Corruption is a cancer: a cancer that eats away at a citizen's faith in democracy, diminishes the instinct for innovation and creativity;…

— Joe Biden

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing,…

— Arthur Symons

Thousands of Americans, Englishmen and Frenchmen have visited Germany during the months after the national revolution and were able to testify as…

— Adolf Hitler

I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“...play [is] an instinct developed by natural selection ... and ... on a level with the other instincts which are developed for…

— Karl Groos

“As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage of them would remain…

— James Jones

Understanding the animals' instinct is much much easier than to understand the human beings' (pseudo) intelligence!

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

— Jean-Philippe Rameau

“I'll never be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand as if a man were author to himself and knew no…

— William Shakespeare

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

— Oscar Wilde

People usually think with their brain or go with their heart, but a good place to start is if you have a…

— Emma Mackey

By disregarding intuition in favor of science, or science in favor of instincts, we limit ourselves.

— Bernie Siegel

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

— Kenneth Grahame

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

— F. H. Bradley

I've always had the instinct and I always have the mind to make the right play.

— Fred VanVleet

“Learn to trust your instincts more often. They tend to be the most accurate alarm.”

— Ramona Matta

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Who's to say what would have happened if I had trusted my instincts and moved to New York like I thought I…

— Zachary Quinto

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

That's how I operate best. I just ignore feelings and jump right into the next thing.

— Melissa Rosenberg

Captaincy is something you get better at through experience. You've got to trust your instincts.

— Andrew Flintoff

“Always trust your gut,” he says. “It tells the truth when your brain doesn’t want to accept it.”

— Jo Raven