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Instinct Quotes by Jean Cocteau
- The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If…
- Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities.
- A man's truest self realizations might require him, above all, to learn to close his eyes: to let himself be taken unawares, to follow his…
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- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. — Stanley Baldwin
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- I feel there are two people inside me - me and my intuition. If I go against her, she'll screw me every… — Kim Basinger
- To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. — Max Beerbohm
- Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and… — Max Beerbohm
- Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized… — Henri Bergson
- Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I… — Halle Berry
- Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to… — Mortimer Adler
- Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. — Josh Billings
- As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have… — Bono