Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

I also, as I think most people do, have a healthy instinct that if we upset the balance of nature, we are in all probability… — Tony Blair
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. — Albert Einstein
Well, it's such an intricate, beautiful script about eight professional robbers pulling a heist, and it deals with elements of betrayal, trust, instinct, and need… — Harvey Keitel
All you decent, well-meaning gentlemen, let me ask you, have you any idea what sort of place the world is becoming all around you? The… — Kazuo Ishiguro
I believe that justice is instinct and innate, that the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing,… — Thomas Jefferson
Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly… — Thomas Jefferson
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it… — Immanuel Kant
The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to… — Carl Jung
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and… — Allan Bloom
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. — Prince Philip
One thing I have learned is that I should trust my 'gut' instincts. Ultimately, only we know what is best for us. — Miranda Kerr
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse! — Tennessee Williams
Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Our capacities, our instincts for this our present sphere are but half developed. Let us be completely natural; before we trouble ourselves with the supernatural. — Margaret Fuller
Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. — Theodore Sturgeon
So deeply is the gardener's instinct implanted in my soul, I really love the tools with which I work; the iron fork, the spade, the… — Celia Thaxter
The biggest problem I see among people who want to excel in chess – and in business and in life in general – is not… — Garry Kasparov
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct. — F. H. Bradley
I rely a great deal on animal instincts. — George Soros
When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs… — Thomas Goodwin
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran
Others first. Whatever your corporate mission, paint a clear and compelling picture that others can understand and embrace. State your mission in terms that appeal… — Tony Dungy
The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts:… — William Faulkner
I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. — Elvis Presley
I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've… — Sue Grafton

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