Instinct Quotes

1476 Instinct quotes by 1077 unique authors

The theory of probabilities is basically only common sense reduced to a calculus. It makes one estimate accurately what right-minded people feel by a sort… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
It is clear, then, that the idea of a fixed method, or of a fixed theory of rationality, rests on too naive a view of… — Paul Feyerabend
The Center for Public Integrity is the real thing. A group of dedicated people who remember that great journalism is about grit and guts and… — Diane Sawyer
Here my powers rest from their high fantasy, but already I could feel my being turned- instinct and intellect balanced equally. as in a wheel… — Dante Alighieri
Music is the language of some other state, born of memory. For what can wake the soul's strong instinct of some other world like music? — Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct — Narendra Modi
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our… — Lamar Alexander
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens and vanishes, as… — J F C Fuller
You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You… — Billie Jean King
By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you. — Gail Sheehy
There is no reason to make the search for friendship sound like an animal instinct. Friendship does not always come as a result of a… — Martin E. Marty
Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs… — Eugene Ionesco
You've got to play with that killer instinct, man. You've got to hate that guy across from you. Then after the game is over, tell… — Chuck Bednarik
Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie. — Oprah Winfrey
I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe… — Richard Branson
The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,'… — William J. Clinton
You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct. — Chris Hughes
Ultimately a highly complex sentiment, having its first origin in the social instincts, largely guided by the approbation of our fellow-men, ruled by reason, self-interest,… — Charles Darwin
There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought… — George Orwell
It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection. — Albert Einstein
The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the… — Leon Uris
Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is a key secret to every… — Larry Flynt
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to… — Christopher Fry

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