Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events… — Stefan Zweig
My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic… — Audrey Hepburn
I still don’t believe it. It’s not in him. Yeah, and you are delusional. Babe, news flash, with the exception of you and the pirate,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A dominant wolf's desire to protect was a strong instinct- Samuel was very dominant. Give him an inch, and he's take over the world- my… — Patricia Briggs
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious… — Oscar Wilde
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way… — Robert Frost
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up… — Noam Chomsky
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick… — Eve Ensler
You just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. — Gerard Way
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another… — Henry David Thoreau
Vimes struggled to his feet, shook his head and set off after it. No thought was involved. It is the ancient instinct of terriers and… — Terry Pratchett
But we were all young once. It passes, like innocence and a sense of fair play. The only thing left in the end is a… — Laurell K. Hamilton
You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except… — George Orwell
Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets… — David Clement-Davies
Morrigan "Don't worry I'm following my instincts." Birkita "Perhaps you could find a way to prudently follow your instincts" Morrigan "I'm eighteen, nothing I do… — P. C. Cast
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Now, helpless in the hollow of An unarmorial age, a trough Of smoke in slow suspended skeins Above their scrap of history, Only an attitude… — Philip Larkin
You cannot love without intuition. — Graham Greene
I have really good instincts about friends. — Nicole Richie
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own… — Adrienne Rich
And the flesh is that reprehensible preference for self that lurks within every one of our hearts. It is that base and selfish instinct to… — Eric Ludy
Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter.… — William Shakespeare
If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, then it must somehow… — Wendell Berry
But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad… — Jane Austen

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