Instinct Quote by Bette Howland Download Open image “Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.” — Bette Howland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instinct Intelligence Intuition Motivation Passion Reason
Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Reason tends to check selfish impulses and to grant the satisfaction of legitimate impulses in others. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Reason is no match for desire: when desire is purely and powerfully felt, it becomes a kind of reason of its own. — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
'You're reason and your passion are the rudder.. and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you can but toss and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The desire of perfection became the ruling passion of their soul; and it is well known, that while reason embraces a cold mediocrity, our… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image