Instinct Quotes

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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. — Billy Wilder
Some of their best songs don't have bridges and choruses. So that made me think I should trust my instincts. My songs were okay, I… — Lucinda Williams
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. — Woodrow Wilson
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. — Oprah Winfrey
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead… — Henry Winkler
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. — Robert Winston
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to… — Virginia Woolf
Israel fights back, which is very much at odds with the Jewish instinct to discuss and deconstruct everything until action itself seems senseless. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and… — Helen Fisher
i learned that predators don't intentionally choose the weak or old or sick. they kill what they can, which means the slow members of the… — Craig Clevenger
The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's… — Aldous Huxley
Intuition is really a sudden immersion of the soul into the universal current of life. — Paulo Coelho
He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy,… — Mark Twain
I felt a strange tightness coming over me, and I reacted instinctively – for the first time in a long, long while – by slipping… — Hunter S. Thompson
Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most… — Hunter S. Thompson
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This… — Dave Barry
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method — Abraham Joshua Heschel
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of… — Oscar Wilde
Much to his annoyance, a thought popped into his mind. It was very clear and very distinct, and he had now come to recognize these… — Douglas Adams
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare and perfect that… — Pat Conroy
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it, the… — David Guterson
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. — Albert Einstein
Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of… — Peter Matthiessen
He didn't have a single clue what was going on with these two strangers, but every instinct told him Master George equaled good, Mistress Jane… — James Dashner

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