Instinctively Quotes
197 quotes by 181 authors
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People always tend to identify, instinctively, freedom with abandon.But the type of abandon that seeks personal gratification always gets you "tied up in a knot."Abandon…
— Sivaya Subramuniyaswami
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The mathematician is in much more direct contact with reality. ... [Whereas] the physicist's reality, whatever it may be, has few or none of the…
— G. H. Hardy
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Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know…
— T.D. Jakes
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President Obama celebrates diversity, yet instinctively seeks common ground and builds on that common ground to make progress.
— Valerie Jarrett
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When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.
— Charles R. Swindoll
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I expect photographs to find me. I never thought of looking for them. I instinctively put them there. My intellect had nothing to do with…
— Ruth Bernhard
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The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.
— Walter Lippmann
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Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice.
— Marcel Proust
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Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality.
— Jean Cocteau
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Sometimes we go to a play and after the curtain has been up five minutes we have a sense of being able to settle back…
— Anton Chekhov
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I believe that when people have an occupation that allows them to provide for their families, the social dimension of human nature will emerge instinctively…
— Xanana Gusmao
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I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
— Ella Maillart
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I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.
— Carson McCullers
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the…
— Van Wyck Brooks
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As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of…
— Jones Very
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Emerson is a person who lives instinctively on ambrosia - and leaves everything indigestible on his plate.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Modesty, that perennial flower planted instinctively in the human breast, blooms therein only as continence guards and virtue keeps.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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Women are like that they don't acquire knowledge of people we are for that they are just born with a practical fertility of suspicion that…
— William Faulkner
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I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very…
— Charles Krauthammer
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