Instinct Quotes · Page 32

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

“He was ruled by the tyranny of instinct, by passion and the instant legislation of a simple heart.”

— Pat Conroy

If you think what you see on TV is prejudiced, it is. Follow your instincts.

— Chris Matthews

I can be indecisive about things - and the less important something is, the more indecisive I am.

— Ben Miller

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

— Luigi Pirandello

I know what it feels like to love and care about things, but I've never had that instinct to have kids.

— Allison Janney

“It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me.”

— Alexandra Bracken

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

— Tennessee Williams

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are…

— Stefan Zweig

Our instinct as human beings is to provide answers, to ease tension. As writers our job is the opposite, to create tension…

— Sol Stein

I pick what are my priorities and I limit those priorities to less than five in my life and really in those…

— Sheena Iyengar

I suppose it is easy for an actress to act maternal at any age, since all women have a nurturing instinct after…

— Raveena Tandon

It's amazing how sudden the effect is - it must be the result of a deep atavistic mating urge buried inside us.…

— William Boyd

If you mean, "My gut feeling is telling me this; therefore I can act on it and I don't have to worry,"…

— Gary A. Klein

First of all I trust my own instinct, experience that I gained over years and feeling when the moment is right for…

— Alisher Usmanov

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious…

— Thomas Goodwin

My instinct is to keep people guessing. I think as an actor your greatest strength is your versatility, I suppose. The blanker…

— Tom Hiddleston

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is…

— Anna Kendrick

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the worlds at a standstill. The consequence of…

— Helen Keller

There is the cause for pleasure and for pain: But music moves us, and we know not why? We feel the tears,…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to…

— Lajos Kossuth

To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like…

— Alan Cooper

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest…

— Herman Melville

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

— Oprah Winfrey

Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy

— Leo Tolstoy

The channels of intuitive knowledge are opened according to the intensity of individual need.

— Jane Roberts

Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.

— Charles Darwin

I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.

— Ravi Shankar

“I have never really been able to separate a good instinct from a self-destructive urge),”

— Emily Barr

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

— Albert Einstein

“Sometimes all you have is instinct, a gut feeling. It's important to pay attention to them.”

— James Patterson

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.

— Lofty Wiseman

Spontaneity and instincts are key factors to a memorable party.

— Mia Moretti

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

— Karl Lagerfeld

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

— Antonin Artaud

Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.

— Don Bradley

“the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty”

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

If you feel something then act upon it, otherwise you'll spend the rest of your life wondering what could have been.

— Anonymous

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

— Jim Shepard