Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

We all yearn to fly. We are creatures of longing. We do not need to [physically fly] to be airborne. What I call the aerial… — Sam Keen
Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical… — Esther Hicks
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out… — A. C. Benson
Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are… — Esther Hicks
[My choice about scripts] is just a question of what I fall in love with. You have to use some kind of instinct meter about… — Mira Sorvino
When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct… — Henry David Thoreau
Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds. — Anne Archer
Fight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. — Jean Cocteau
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. — Fernando Pessoa
Follow your bliss. That which you love you must spend your life doing, as passionately and as perfectly as your heart, mind and instincts allow.… — George Lois
The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections… — Charles Darwin
A man who has no assured and ever present belief in the existence of a personal God or of a future existence with retribution and… — Charles Darwin
Those who have gone through the high school of reporterdom have acquired a new instinct by which they see and hear only that which can… — Hugo Munsterberg
Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not… — Maurice Samuel
I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different. All your life you've been training to forget yourself, so when you're in… — Veronica Roth
Forgiveness is above all a personal choice, a decision of the heart to go against the natural instinct to pay back evil with evil. — Pope John Paul II
Machiavelli is the complete contrary of a machiavellian, since he describes the tricks of power and gives the whole show away. The seducer and the… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. — Benjamin Disraeli
Obligation is a flimsy base for creativity, way down the list behind passion, courage, instinct, and the desire to do something great. — Twyla Tharp
Personally, I believe very much in values of savagery; I mean: instinct, passion, mood, violence, madness. — Jean Dubuffet
There are... for us no instincts—we no longer need the term in psychology. Everything we have been in the habit of calling an 'instinct' today… — John B. Watson
George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been,… — Hunter S. Thompson
Every deadline was a crisis … No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood… — Hunter S. Thompson
My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And… — Andy Warhol

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