Instinct Quotes
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Instinct is untaught ability. (Quote by - Alexander Bain)
I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience. (Quote by - Barbra Streisand)
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.(Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right." (Quote by - Tallulah Bankhead)
There is no instinct like that of the heart. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be revelation. (Quote by - Eileen Caddy)
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.(Quote by - Frank Capra)
Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.(Quote by - Oprah Winfrey)
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. (Quote by - William Cowper)
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness. (Quote by - Shakti Gawain)
Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything. (Quote by - Eva Peron)
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. (Quote by - Holmes)
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.(Quote by - Michael Burke)
Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful. (Quote by - Henri Frederic Amiel)
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. (Quote by - Francis W. Newman)
'Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own, Believe no evil, till the evil's done. (Quote by - Jean de la Fontaine)
Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares. (Quote by - Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton)
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life. (Quote by - Katherine F. Gerould)
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Conviction without experiences makes for harshness. (Quote by - Flannery O'Connor)
Instinct is stronger than upbringing. (Quote by - Proverb)
For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is never taken lightly or ignored.(Quote by - Wayne Dyer)
Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality. (Quote by - Dr. Alexis Carrel)
One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses. (Quote by - Henry Miller)
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Instinct and reason how can we divide? 'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. (Quote by - Matthew Prior)
All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin. (Quote by - Katharine Butler Hathaway)
Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
I give myself, sometimes, admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. (Quote by - Lady Mary Wortley Montagu)
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster. (Quote by - Anne Wilson Schaef)
Intuition is the clear concept of the whole at once.(Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
To have character is to be big enough to take life on. (Quote by - Mary Caroline Richards)
It is our business to go as we are impelled. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)
Intuition always has our best interest at heart.(Quote by - Christina Baldwin)
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.Dr.(Quote by - Joyce Brothers)
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
A fierce unrest seethes at the core Of all existing things: It was the eager wish to soar That gave the gods their wings. . . . . There throbs through all the worlds that are This heart-beat not and strong, And shaken systems, star by star, Awake and glow in song. (Quote by - Donald Marquis)
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on. (Quote by - Carolyn Kenmore)
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. (Quote by - Billy Wilder)
Instinct is the nose of the mind. (Quote by - Madame de Girardin)
The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.(Quote by - Albert Einstein)
How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near! (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. (Quote by - William James)
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is. (Quote by - Van Hartmann)
I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong. (Quote by - A. C. Benson)
A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe. (Quote by - Eleanor Roosevelt)
