Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
Reason is the servant of instinct. — Clarence Day
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we… — Laurence Olivier
The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar tastes and aspirations and like music as… — Mick Taylor
Their every instinct - and I have to say this is without exception - is to iron out the bumps, and It's always the bumps… — Adrian Lyne
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when… — Steve Irwin
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. — Isabelle Adjani
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. — Unknown Author
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation. — Albert Einstein
One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. — Gertrude Stein
You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of… — Walter Lippmann
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. — Clay Aiken
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and… — Sylvia Plath
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell

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