Instinct Quotes

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It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees. — Mario Puzo
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people. — Mark Twain
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the… — Desmond Tutu
Human beings are born with the instinct to express themselves through movement. Even before he could communicate with words, primitive man was dancing to the… — Bob Fosse
Act before you think - your instincts are more honest than your thoughts. — Sanford Meisner
Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a… — Lydia M. Child
Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another… — Arthur Symons
Cookery is not chemistry. It is an art. It requires instinct and taste rather than exact measurements. — Marcel Boulestin
Reflecting back on your life is not only food for thought, but a Wiseman's bridge looking at how and why, you made your path for… — Ron Bennington
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb. — Pat Riley
The combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. — George Santayana
The secret point of money and power in America is neither the things that money can buy nor power for power's sake... but absolute personal… — Joan Didion
There are many definite methods, honest and dishonest, which make people rich; the only instinct I know of which does it is that instinct which… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. — Max Eastman
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world… — Charles Lyell
Liberalism and capitalism address themselves to the cool, well-balanced mind. They proceed by strict logic, eliminating any appeal to the emotions. Socialism, on the contrary,… — Ludwig von Mises
Looking to future generations, there is no cause to fear that the social instincts will grow weaker... the social instincts, - the prime principle of… — Charles Darwin
Style is primarily a matter of instinct. — Bill Blass
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I understand the human instinct to want to create a nest and possess things, to show them off, but for me personally, it became less… — Nicolas Berggruen

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