Instinct Quotes · Page 18

It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.

— Emeli Sande

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

— Agatha Christie

You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.

— Clint Eastwood

Personally I prefer to work things out by feel, by instinct.

— Andrew Flintoff

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

— Alexander Pope

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

— Brian Wilson

If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.

— Clare Boothe Luce

I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand As is a man were author of himself And knew no…

— William Shakespeare

Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when…

— Devon Monk

If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it…

— C. S. Lewis

What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What…

— Denise Levertov

A persistent and age-old instinct makes us want to wander Into regions yet untrod And read what is still unread In the…

— Willis R. Whitney

“Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form…

— Noel Gallagher

We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream…

— Neal Stephenson

“Love was a lizard brain instinct. A survival mechanism bred into the species that was totally separate from reason. Women were extremely…

— Douglas E. Richards

To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should…

— William Beebe

When you're writing a 25-minute episode that can be anything, sometimes you just start with a character, and you let them walk…

— Mark Duplass

I follow my instincts and I always think about what movie I would like to see. If I want to see it…

— Alexandre Aja

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him…

— Jack London

[Referring to the birds:] Nat listened to the tearing sound of splintering wood, and wondered how many million years of memory were…

— Daphne du Maurier

Artist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice.

— Don Blanding

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

— Max Beerbohm

I don't make decisions with my head anymore. If I don't get the go ahead with my gut, I usually back out.

— Jane Siberry

Sometimes you have to trust your guts and your instinct and improvise a little.

— Peter Stormare

I sign a film according to my instincts and everything in each department must be appealing be it story, character etc.

— Katrina Kaif

You have to go with your gut, take a leap of faith and trust you'll be protected where you land.

— Anonymous

The brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs.

— Robert A. Heinlein

We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist.

— Kenneth Tynan

Always trust your gut, It knows what your head hasn't yet figured out..

— Ritu Ghatourey

Always trust your gut feeling, and never second guess. Your gut feeling is always right.

— Ritu Ghatourey

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan

“I do solemnly swear I will trust my instincts—my ‘gut’—from now on,”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.

— Tony Parsons

“The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but it is instinct.”

— Henry David Thoreau