Instinct Quotes · Page 34

I am, by instinct, wary of revolutions. The gathering of the masses fills me with trepidation.

— Hisham Matar

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

— Jean Rostand

The creative instinct has always been a stronger motive than mere profit to do truly new and revolutionary things.

— Phil Karn

But I have a gut feeling on this and it’s not the oh-look-it’s-a-bright-shiny-world kind. (Tate)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

— Wendell Berry

Hates it when your gut tells you that something just ain't right...

— Nishan Panwar

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

I make all my decisions by listening to my instinct and then keeping my fingers crossed it will lead to a good…

— Felicity Jones

“Man no longer follows instinct with the old natural fidelity. He has developed into a reasoning creature, and can intellectually cling to…

— Jack London

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, - the fear instinct.

— Boris Sidis

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness…

— Albert Schweitzer

I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

— Mike McCarthy

Instinct Versus Intuition: Instinct is fear based, designed to protect. Intuition is possibility based, designed to create.

— Tanya Lacy - Intercept Experience

I'm so respectful of good writing. It's the blueprint for the movie. You have to have that script there because, if you…

— Molly Shannon

When your gut feelings tell you something, LISTEN to it because 9 times out of 10 it's telling you the TRUTH! Don't…

— Anonymous

A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares,…

— Jean Cocteau

One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination,…

— Lynne McTaggart

The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all…

— Carl Jung

Behaviorism proposes to study human behavior according to the methods developed by animal and infant psychology. It seeks to investigate reflexes and…

— Ludwig von Mises

A dominant dog can get another dog to move out of its way just by the energy it projects. You can tell…

— Cesar Millan

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had…

— Charles Dickens

Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on…

— Camille Paglia

Amateur wrestling, you can go by instinct. Pro wrestling, you have to memorize, and you have to go by what moves you…

— Kurt Angle

You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort…

— Robert Doisneau

“The cat is obeying its blood instinct when it plays with the mouse! It's made that way.”

— Agatha Christie

As a global disrupter, Uber is no stranger to conflict, and its instinct has always been pugilistic.

— James B. Stewart

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

— Thomas Mann

When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace.

— John McCarthy

One must, of course, have one's entire experience behind one and not have lost the freshness of instinct.

— Henri Matisse

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

— Konrad Lorenz

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

— Florence Welch

An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

— Jose Marti

The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernal of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

— Bertrand Russell

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

— Samuel Florman

I just don't know how to stitch words in a predictable way sometimes. It's a weird instinct I've developed.

— Masiela Lusha

I don't always trust my own instincts. It would be nice if someone else would tell me what I should do with…

— Liz Phair

In terms of what we share from our lives, I tend to share everything. My instinct would be to share everything.

— Alison Rosen

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself.

— Ben Affleck

Focus on your goal, trust on your instinct and live with courage. Make your life worth living.

— Anil Sinha