Instinctive Quotes

185 quotes by 163 authors

What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race. — Amedeo Modigliani
The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life — Roy Jenkins
One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse… — Elizabeth Bowen
I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi's apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately… — Ahmet Ertegun
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them. — William Henry Hudson
The trouble is that you won't get the scientists to agree on a course of action. It is almost instinctive in science to accept contrary… — Frederick Seitz
I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt… — Ida B. Wells
Lehman uses many conveyancesâ€”including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymesâ€”to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always… — Ken Tucker
I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive. — Iris Apfel
If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I… — Guillermo del Toro
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the… — Joseph O'Neill
There are two reasons why man loses contact with the regulating center of his soul. One of them is that some single instinctive drive or… — Carl Jung
Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers… — H. Jay Dinshah
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive… — William Hazlitt
An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to… — Joseph Rotblat
Pure morality is only an instinctive adjustment which the soul makes. — D. H. Lawrence
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future. — L. Ron Hubbard
Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious. — Austin Osman Spare
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog. — Charles Darwin

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