Instinct Quotes

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Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we've begun dying. We watch helplessly as… — Jim Butcher
Ask the Outsider what he ultimately wants,and he will admit he doesn't know.Why? Because he wants it instinctively,and it is not always possible to tell… — Colin Wilson
And it was kind of funny to see all these professional fighters unwilling to get within a mile of the female. Then again, if you… — J R Ward
WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame,… — Terry Tempest Williams
And human instinct is ancient and reliable, utterly mysterious and possibly capable of great genius. I believe that refined, fluent instincts are a person's most… — Augusten Burroughs
I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didnâ€™t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan
The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy task is laid… — C.S. Lewis
But when I would see the surrogate, my first instinct, my first reaction would be jealousy, because she was doing what I wanted to do. — Cheryl Tiegs
For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness. — Mark Twain
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these things… — William Bernbach
It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight. — Rudyard Kipling
How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts. — Konrad Lorenz
~My instinct is to protect my children from pain. But adversity is often the thing that gives us character and backbone. It's always been a… — Nicole Kidman
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up in… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
War stirs in men's hearts the mud of their worst instincts. It puts a premium on violence, nourishes hatred, and gives free rein to cupidity.… — Charles de Gaulle
I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred… — Mark Twain

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