Impulse Quotes
827 quotes by 629 authors
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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
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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
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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
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Good impulses are naught, unless they become good actions.
— Joseph Joubert
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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
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In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice.
— Plutarch
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Opinions which justify cruelty are inspired by cruel impulses.
— Bertrand Russell
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Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses.
— George Santayana
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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
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(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
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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
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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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