Instinct Quotes
1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors
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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
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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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
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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
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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
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…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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.
— H.G. Wells
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Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.
— Tom Robbins
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Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
— Ray Bradbury
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Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
— Madeleine L'Engle
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What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
— George Orwell
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We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war…
— Brandon Mull
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When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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instinct leads me to another flow
— Queen Latifah
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Our feelings are our most genuine paths to knowledge.
— Audre Lorde
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The more the poet grows, the deeper the level of creative intuition descends into the density of his soul. Where formerly he could be moved…
— Jacques Maritain
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