Instinctive Quotes

185 quotes by 163 authors

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living… — Mahatma Gandhi
December stillness, teach me through your trees That loom along the west, one with the land, The veiled evangel of your mysteries. While nightfall, sad… — Siegfried Sassoon
Her own contempt for any forms of pressure society might put on her was so profound and instinctive that she as instinctively despised anyone who… — Doris Lessing
All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the… — Dave Barry
What moralists describe as the mysteries of the human heart are solely the deceiving thoughts, the spontaneous impulses of self-regard. The sudden changes in character,… — Honore de Balzac
Love isn't rational, it's instinctive — Laurie Faria Stolarz
But I donâ€™t think Iâ€™ve ever known such a natural at Potions!â€ said Slughorn. â€œInstinctive, you know â€” like his mother! Iâ€™ve only ever taught… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Yes! He knew how she would love. He had not loved her without gaining that instinctive knowledge of what capabilities were in her. Her soul… — Elizabeth Gaskell
At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness… — Fernando Pessoa
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage, sacrifice, patience... War… — Howard Zinn
He had a better mind and a more rigorous temperament than me; he thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas… — Julian Barnes
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear. — Haruki Murakami
understanding the true nature of instinctive decision making requires us to be forgiving of those people trapped in circumstances where good judgment is imperiled. — Malcolm Gladwell
But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are. — Rachel Joyce
Beside her, her husband could only splutter, and he stopped even that when she half turned to flash him a smile - the instinctive, brilliant… — Cornell Woolrich
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as… — Stefan Zweig
I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the… — Og Mandino
A love of reading is an acquired taste, not an instinctive preference. The habit of reading is formed in childhood; and a child's taste in… — Henry Clay Trumbull
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… — Gore Vidal
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them. — William James

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