Instinct Quotes · Page 2

I write out of instinct.

— Jerome Weidman

The first instinct is love.

— Sean Penn

Common sense is instinct.

— Anonymous

I trust my gut a lot.

— Erika Jayne

Always trust your instinct.

— Soko

Instinct is untaught ability

— Alexander Bain

My instincts are not comedic.

— Josh Lucas

Stick to your instincts.

— Tina Weymouth

“Intuition is the nose of the heart.”

— Amit Kalantri

I feel like everyone has this competitive instinct.

— Sebastian Thrun

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

— Isabelle Adjani

I basically go with whatever my gut tells me.

— Big Freedia

I think I make most of my decisions pretty organically.

— Kurt Elling

We heed no instincts but our own.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

— John Ray

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

— Bob Dylan

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.

— Eric Liddell

I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

— George Orwell

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Instinct is a marvellous thing," mused Poirot. "It can neither be explained nor ignored.”

— Agatha Christie

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

— St. Vincent

Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.

— Phyllis McGinley

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

— Ouida

I don't follow fashion and I don't follow trends, I just follow my instincts

— Victoria Beckham

[Nietzsche] attributes to himself an extremely vivid and sensitive instinct of cleanliness. At the first contact the filth lying at the base…

— Georg Brandes

I think trusting your instincts and doing what is right by you is the most important thing, because at the end of…

— Takudzwa Victoria Rosa Maidza

Eric walks toward me, and I back away by instinct. I try not to be afraid of him, but I know how…

— Veronica Roth

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if…

— Francis Bacon

It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another...we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the…

— Charles Darwin

--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly…

— Thomas Hardy

Both me and my wife's extended family all live within a 50-mile radius. Like me, a lot of them did time in…

— Robert Smith

Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“The instinct that drives compulsion is universal. It is an attempt to solve the problem of disconnection, alienation, tepid despair... the problem…

— Russell Brand

I prefer not to overthink things because I think if I did I would never end up releasing anything. I tend to…

— Chelsea Wolfe

Women are smarter by basic instinct and by what we have to do to multitask at home and at work. My mother…

— Mireille Guiliano

To be clear, I worry as much about the impact of the Internet as anyone else. I worry about shortening attention spans,…

— Andrew Weil

“You think my first instinct is to protect you because you are small or a girl or a stiff, but you are…

— Veronica Roth

In psychoanalysis as in art, God resided in the details, the discovery of which required enormous patience, unyielding seriousness, and the skill…

— Judith Perelman Rossner

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he That every man in arms should wish to be? It is the generous spirit,…

— William Wordsworth

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages’ way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance…

— Robert Browning