Instinct Quotes

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The repression of virtuous instinct in the modern world is an incremental tragedy. Repress one instinct, and you repress many; other parts of consciousness go… — Michael Leunig
One of the great issues in biology is the origin of altruism - of why you would do something for someone else that could hurt… — Isabella Rossellini
What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred. — Antony Beevor
Network shows shoot so fast, so you kind of have to just go with your instinct. — Natalie Dormer
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the… — Edward Frederic Benson
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you… — Charles Comiskey
It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots… — David Leavitt
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. — Katharine Butler Hathaway
To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to… — Jane Harrison
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy… — Manfred von Richthofen
When I see a slippery slope, my instinct is to build a terrace. — John McCarthy
The instinct to impersonate produces the actor; the desire to provide pleasure by impersonations produces the playwright; the desire to provide this pleasure with adequate… — George Pierce Baker
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. — F. H. Bradley
One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for… — Branford Marsalis
I had this instinct and I just knew it. It was a very strange thing and as soon as I finished recording it, we were… — Deborah Cox
At this period the enthusiasm of the amateur was fast giving way to a more steady commercial instinct, and I let no opportunity slip of… — Henry Bessemer
I usually go with the first instinct, and then build upon that. — John Otto
The instinct to worship is hardly less strong than the instinct to eat. — Dorothy Thompson
If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence. — Will Cuppy
Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form. — Thomas Mann

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