Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light. — Gyorgy Kepes
Poetry is not a civilizer, rather the reverse, for great poetry appeals to the most primitive instincts. — Robinson Jeffers
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and… — Will Durant
To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. — Guillaume Apollinaire
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the… — William Howard Taft
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or… — Bill Brandt
How can we be trusted with big things if we're not trustworthy with things that are small? Don't allow your finer instincts to become a… — Price Pritchett
My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist… — Winston Churchill
A personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. — John Irving
I'm confident and I trust my instincts. — Sachin Tendulkar
It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary patience to wait, simply wait much… — Hart Crane
To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.... In other… — Alan Cooper
Christianity has a hunter's instinct for finding out all those who by one means or another may be driven to despair -although only a part… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it… — Friedrich Nietzsche
She has good instincts, but wrong judgments. She'll rue the day. — David O. Selznick
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will… — Karel Capek
The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of… — Sinclair Lewis
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and… — Emile M. Cioran
Listening only to my instincts, I discovered superb things. — Claude Monet
The people's instincts are still right. You see them come to the rescue of someone-a child who falls down a well-hundreds of people rush to… — Ronald Reagan
Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating. — Samuel Reshevsky
I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture. I'm trying to get my right-brain muscles into… — Daniel H. Pink
Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. — Deepak Chopra
If you speak up online and your ideas have currency, people are going to show up and want to connect with you. What we need… — Seth Godin
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield… — Virginia Woolf

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