Instinct Quotes

1476 quotes by 1077 authors

It's unnatural for people to run around the city streets unless they are thieves or victims. It makes people nervous to see someone running. I… — Mike Royko
Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If… — Malcolm Gladwell
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. — Hilaire Belloc
I think it's taken me this long to really trust myself, but now I do, I really do. Thanks to my experience and wisdom, I've… — Deborra-Lee Furness
Everything I've done in my life has been by instinct. I never had any doubt I could do anything... I always knew I was going… — Unknown Author
For me it's always about first impressions. I trust my instincts. I love to prepare if it's something that requires training. But I don't like… — Billy Zane
It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply that we don't have as much… — Gloria Steinem
My gut and intuition told me it wasn't time to do this. — Mario Vazquez
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are… — H. L. Mencken
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. — Sigmund Freud
The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. — Edgar Fiedler
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find… — Socrates
People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to… — Peter Senge
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable… — Sophocles
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. — Unknown Author
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. — Sophocles
To be honest with you, I don't have the words to make you feel better, but I do have the arms to give you a… — Unknown Author
It is not an act of bravery to try to save your own village. It is an instinct to protect what you possess. Bravery is… — Gail Tsukiyama
Patriotism, or the peculiar relation of an individual to his country, is like the family instinct. In the child it is a blind devotion; in… — George William Curtis

Who Wrote These Instinct Quotes

1,077 authors contributed a total of 1,476 Instinct Quotes, led by these top contributors: