Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at… — Alphonse de Lamartine
That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting… — Malcolm Gladwell
You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If… — Irving Kahn
The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our… — Catherine Crowe
Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother… — Amos Bronson Alcott
The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and… — Ronald Steel
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For… — John Dryden
The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it… — Oliver Goldsmith
Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which… — Joseph Conrad
I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's… — Eva Longoria
In art as in love, instinct is enough. — Anatole France
It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct. — Sigmund Freud
We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts. — Sigmund Freud
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately… — Noel Gallagher
Being in a multicultural environment in childhood is going to give you intuition, reflexes and instincts. You may acquire basic responsiveness later on, but it's… — Carlos Ghosn
I truly believe that everything that we do and everyone that we meet is put in our path for a purpose. There are no accidents;… — Marla Gibbs
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts. — Evelyn Glennie
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. — Stone Gossard
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash… — Germaine Greer
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and… — Bear Grylls
Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey. — Anna Julia Cooper
You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will… — Francis Ford Coppola
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. — Barbara Corcoran

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