Instinct Quotes

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Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. — Armistead Maupin
I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through. — Peter Straub
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a… — Charles Alexander Eastman
My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Reason is the servant of instinct. — Clarence Day
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we… — Laurence Olivier
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as… — Mick Taylor
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps… — Adrian Lyne
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when… — Steve Irwin
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. — Isabelle Adjani
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. — Unknown Author
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — Gertrude Stein
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of… — Walter Lippmann
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath

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