Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

I think that the insane desire one has sometimes to bang and kick grumblers and peevish persons is a Divine instinct. — Robert Hugh Benson
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them. — C.S. Lewis
I write out of instinct. — Unknown Author
As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes. — Edward Gardner
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a… — Ludwig von Mises
Through care taken over trends, the desire to be novel and affectation knowledge, we repudiate our art, our instinct, our own way of doing things;… — Giuseppe Verdi
Children know by instinct that hell is an absence of love, and they can pick out theirs without missing. — Flannery O'Connor
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things — Clifford Geertz
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field'… — C. Wright Mills
Follow your instincts - you never know if your ideas will work out unless you try them. — Unknown Author
I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement… — Camille Pissarro
Generosity is revolutionary, counter-instinctual. Our survival instinct is to care only for ourselves and our loved ones. But we can transform our relationship to that… — Noah Levine
Each of us is born with two contradictory sets of instructions: a conservative tendency, made up of instincts for self-preservation, self-aggrandizement, and saving energy, and… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The mathematician requires tact and good taste at every step of his work, and he has to learn to trust to his own instinct to… — Unknown Author
The Christian's instincts of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God. But this is knowledge which Christians today… — J I Packer
We find in biking the fullfilment of an antique instinct: vagabondage — Maurice Barres
There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which… — Thomas Merton
The possibilities and probabilities are all we have to work with in medicine, though. What we are drawn to in this imperfect science, what we… — Atul Gawande
Engage your emotions at work. Your instincts and emotions are there to help you. — Richard Branson
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it;… — Aleister Crowley
When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
How can you put out a meaningful drama when every fifteen minutes proceedings are interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits with toilet paper? No dramatic art… — Rod Serling
One of the things I benefited from when I started this business was that I didn't know anything. I was just instinct with no preconceived… — Michael Dell
The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. — Gerald M. Loeb
You've got to struggle against the pollution of intelligence in order to become an animal with very sharp instincts - a sort of intuitive medium… — Robert Doisneau

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