Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. — Don Marquis
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. — Jose Marti
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. — Henri Matisse
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead… — Phyllis McGinley
The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull… — Jon Meacham
The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of… — Jon Meacham
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he… — Golda Meir
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of… — John Stuart Mill
I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said. — Sienna Miller
I have no maternal instinct whatsoever. Motherhood holds no interest for me. — Helen Mirren
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. — Marilyn Monroe
I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely… — Dylan Moran
When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a… — Viggo Mortensen
And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the… — Jose Mourinho
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. — Malcolm Muggeridge
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as… — Malcolm Muggeridge
Sticking to your values, listening to your instincts, making your own choices is so important. — Brittany Murphy
The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I… — V.S. Naipaul
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data. — John Naisbitt
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. — George Jean Nathan
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action. — Jawaharlal Nehru
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or… — Anais Nin
I always tell actors when they go in for an audition: Don't be afraid to do what your instincts tell you. You may not get… — Robert De Niro

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