Instinct Quotes

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I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in… — Veronica Roth
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. — Pope John Paul II
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. — Benjamin Disraeli
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet
There are... for us no instinctsâ€”we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today… — John B. Watson
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Every deadline was a crisis â€¦ No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood… — Hunter S. Thompson
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And… — Andy Warhol
I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. — Robert Hugh Benson
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. — C.S. Lewis
I write out of instinct. — Unknown Author
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. — Edward Gardner
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a… — Ludwig von Mises
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them. — Unknown Author

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