Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning. — Brian Reynolds
They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession. So you have… — Sutton Foster
When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window. — M. L. Stedman
You must strive to become much less susceptible to influences outside of yourself and much more inclined to trust the instincts and feelings that lie… — Bob Proctor
Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others... — Timothy Leary
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in. — Bjork
Well, you put a little piece of yourself into every character that you do. Even if you're playing some psychotic person, which of course I'm… — Scarlett Johansson
When the mother herself kills her son she goes against her own nature, against her own instinct. People talk about 'choice', but when a woman… — Jim Caviezel
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a… — Joseph Campbell
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive. — Erwin McManus
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom… — Swami Satchidananda
I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the… — Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person… — David Seamands
There is nothing wrong with having competitive instincts. They are survival instincts. — Pat Summitt
The landscape of my days appears to be composed, like mountainous regions, of varied materials heaped up pell-mell. There I see my nature, itself composite,… — Marguerite Yourcenar
Learn to let your intuition-gut instinct-tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn't good for you (and conversely, when what you're doing is… — Oprah Winfrey
Work hard, use your common sense and don't be afraid to trust your instincts. — Fred L. Turner
None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct. — Luigi Pirandello
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future… — William James
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you. — D. H. Lawrence
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is… — Charles Sanders Peirce
POTABLE, n. Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only… — Ambrose Bierce
I see with much pleasure that you are working on a large work on the integral Calculus [ ... ] The reconciliation of the methods… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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