Impulse Quotes

827 quotes by 629 authors

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt… — Lewis Gannett
Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something… — Napoleon Hill
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing.… — Robert Collyer
Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions. — Joseph Joubert
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism.… — G. Stanley Hall
Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the… — Charles Darwin
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go… — Clarence Day
Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with… — Ray Manzarek
No loss by flood and lightning, no destruction of cities and temples by the hostile forces of nature, has deprived man of so many noble… — Helen Keller
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn. — George Santayana
In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice. — Plutarch
Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses. — Bertrand Russell
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
(Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child… — Bill Gates
Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by… — Khalil Gibran
From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source… — Carl Jung

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