Impulse Quotes

827 Impulse quotes by 615 unique authors

Evolution goes beyond what went before, but because it must embrace what went before, then its very nature is to transcend and include and thus… — Ken Wilber
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in diligent… — Charles Sanders Peirce
There is something about poverty that smells like death. Dead dreams dropping off the heart like leaves in a dry season and rotting around the… — Zora Neale Hurston
In good philosophy, the word cause ought to be reserved to the single Divine impulse that has formed the universe. — Louis Pasteur
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is… — Margaret Mead
There are certain things that our age needs, and certain things that it should avoid. It needs compassion and a wish that mankind should be… — Bertrand Russell
Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of… — Oliver Goldsmith
In human history there has been a continuous and growing impulse toward the regeneration and transformation of humanity. — Barbara Marx Hubbard
The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the… — Pope Benedict XVI
Free will is not the liberty to do whatever one likes, but the power of doing whatever one sees ought to be done, even in… — George MacDonald
The necessity of a senate is not less indicated by the propensity of all single and numerous assemblies, to yield to the impulse of sudden… — James Madison
The experience of treaties being broken with impunity provide an afflicting lesson to mankind how little dependence is to be placed on treaties which have… — Alexander Hamilton
Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature. — Ronald Reagan
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman… — Maurice Maeterlinck
My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. — Ellen Willis
We are vulnerable if we can be taken by a wave of emotion, invaded by an invidious impulse, roughed up by resentment, or engulfed by… — Neal A. Maxwell
The most dangerous of our impulses reign in ourselves against ourselves. To dissolve them is a creative act. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state. — James A. Baldwin
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility — Immanuel Kant
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There is a difference between motivation and inspiration. Motivation is when you get hold of an idea and don't let go of it until you… — Wayne Dyer
A first impulse was never a crime. — Pierre Corneille
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought… — Oscar Wilde
In the alchemy of man's soul almost all noble attributes- courage, honor, love, hope, faith, duty, loyalty, and so on - can be transmuted into… — Eric Hoffer

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