No other instinct can so satisfy without accomplishing its…

The Christian religion seems to have fulfilled its great biological purpose, in so far as we are able to judge. It has led human…

— Carl Jung

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.

— Barbara Demick

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

— Hilaire Belloc

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as…

— Richard M. Nixon

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

— William Ellery Channing

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

— Erol Alkan

How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,…

— David Guterson

As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and…

— Joan Jett

The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the…

— Agnes Repplier

You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.

— Sugar Ray Robinson

I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be…

— Neill Blomkamp

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

— Sherwin B. Nuland

I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot.

— John Muir

Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

— Maria Montessori

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

— William Bernbach