Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really… — Peggy Fleming
We must overthrow the material and moral conditions of our present-day life. . . . We must first purify our atmosphere and completely transform the… — Mikhail Bakunin
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. — Paul Berg
Brutes find out where their talents lie; A bear will not attempt to fly, A foundered horse will oft debate Before he tries a five… — Jonathan Swift
So long as a man remains a gregarious and sociable being, he cannot cut himself off from the gratification of the instinct of imparting what… — James Joseph Sylvester
Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart. — Don Bradley
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. — Unknown Author
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men… — William Butler Yeats
The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The… — Swami Vivekananda
No-limit people are so in charge that they can trust their instincts, be childlike, be creative, do anything that makes sense to them and make… — Wayne Dyer
I think man invented the car by instinct. — Jack Handey
Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. — Friedrich Nietzsche
My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good. — Albert Rosenfeld
The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into being somebody else,… — Simon McBurney
Show me a congenital eavesdropper with the instincts of a Peeping Tom and I will show you the making of a dramatist. — Kenneth Tynan
Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions. — Albert Einstein
Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. In heroism, we feel, life's supreme mystery is… — William James
Always listen to your inner voice, your instincts — Arnold Schwarzenegger
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities. — Unknown Author
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love. — Bertrand Russell
So many people around the world have used nonviolence as a way to resolve a conflict that they faced in their lives. And they continue… — Arun Manilal Gandhi
His herding instinct is so strong that he confuses tractors on a baseball field for sheep. He was hospitalized twice. Once by a line drive… — Tom Hayden
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. — Bertrand Russell
One of the deepest impulses in man is the impulse to record, - to scratch a drawing on a tusk or keep a diary, to… — John Jay Chapman

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