Instinct Quotes · Page 29

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

— Carl Sagan

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

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

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

— Clare Boothe Luce

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

— Brian Wilson

What worries me is that we want to close down our relationship to the world at large. In other words, people's instincts…

— Susan Meiselas

I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But…

— Katherine Anne Porter

Dont listen to anybody. Nobody knows the magic bullet. If they did, theyd sell it and make a fortune. Follow your gut.…

— Michael Cudlitz

Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows.

— Liu Xiaobo

Women's thoughts are impelled by their feelings. Hence the sharp-sightedness, the direct instinct, the quick perceptions; hence also their warmer prejudices and…

— Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew…

— Elizabeth Riddell

Children can be the most cruel creatures alive. They have the herd instinct of prejudice against any outsider, and they are merciless…

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

“You think my first instinct is to protect you. Because you're small, or a girl, or a stiff. But you're wrong. My…

— Veronica Roth

I'd also like us to encourage people to gang rush shooters, rather than following their instincts to hide; if we drilled it…

— Megan McArdle

That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have…

— Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

When you're an actress you are in a very specific position, cerebrally, I would think you know. You are a thinking person…

— Isabelle Huppert

“A dog can be a ‘significant other’ as it infuses a magic fluid stream of oxytocin, trust, ease, and patience; and transforms…

— Erik Pevernagie

I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying…

— Florence Henderson

The selective instinct of the artist tells him when his language should be homely, and when it should be more elevated; and…

— George Henry Lewes

I remember when I read Walter, for example, six years ago now, I said, "This is the role for me." I said…

— John Noble

We had to do something at [a festival in Washington, D.C.]. I remember Chris Martin, by then we all knew him, there…

— Jancee Dunn

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

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

— Don Blanding

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

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

— Max Beerbohm

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

— Peter Stormare

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

— Anonymous

I've come to realise I work so much better when I'm going by instinct.

— Amanda Hale

The day we stop resisting our instincts, we'll have learned how to live.

— Federico Garcia Lorca

To survive in a creative economy, you need basic instinct! You have to know and smell your viewer.

— Ekta Kapoor

If something doesn't feel right, trust your instincts. Don't ignore it and listen before it happens.

— Anonymous

Jazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct.

— Duke Ellington

My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct.

— Haruki Murakami

“Talent is something you bloom, Instinct is something you polish.”

— Haikyūu Oikawa Tooru

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

— John Muir

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

— Harry S Truman