Instinct Quotes
1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors
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Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the…
— Lawren Harris
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When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance…
— Peace Pilgrim
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A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed…
— Rachel Carson
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The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man…
— Matthew Arnold
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I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at…
— Gerald R. Ford
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will…
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic…
— Lynne McTaggart
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I follow my instincts and my excitement.
— Rory MacDonald
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The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.
— Timothy Bradley
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I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.
— Evander Holyfield
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One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she…
— Lucy Lawless
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Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill…
— Matthew Lillard
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I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create,…
— Carlos Gracie, Jr.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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