Instinct Quotes
1476 quotes by 1113 authors
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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head…
— Russell Baker
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
— Stanley Baldwin
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Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which…
— Honore de Balzac
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I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every time, and if…
— Kim Basinger
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To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
— Max Beerbohm
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Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people…
— Max Beerbohm
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Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.
— Henri Bergson
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Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed…
— Halle Berry
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Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or…
— Mortimer Adler
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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
— Josh Billings
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As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to…
— Bono
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Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it…
— Bjork
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That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness,…
— Danny Boyle
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A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
— Richard Branson
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Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
— Joyce Brothers
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Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.
— Rita Mae Brown
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek…
— Steven Brust
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to…
— Luke Bryan
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I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell…
— Bill Bryson
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