Instinct Quotes
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By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.
— Honore De Balzac
Always trust your gut instinct. There will come a time when you will understand, but for now trust God has a plan greater than you have ever imagined.
— Shannon L. Alder
You breathed life back into me. It was instinct for me to be there with you. I didn't want to save you, I just didn't know how to leave you.
— Tarryn Fisher
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ...
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Your soul is strong to survive the situation.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The survived suffered-soul strengthens the suffering souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Are humans nutritional idiots? Our palates aren't just out of tune with our bodily needs. Our palates are out to kill us.
— Mark Schatzker
I don't need a book to tell me how to be alive.
— Marty Rubin
Marriage is a tyranny, a mortification of man's natural instincts. Man needs a multiplicity of relationships.
— Federico Fellini
When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
— Alain Ducasse
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The instinct and the body (the felt smoothness of pebbles, the seen grain of light) must know in ways that the conscious mind cannot.
— Robert Macfarlane
When instinct speaks, listen to it. It might be the next push you need to reach greater heights.
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
In solitude, you listen to sacred voice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It was instinct to pull back, to let go before I felt him let go first, bu he didn't allow me.
— Alexandra Bracken
The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.
— J.I. Packer
Hope is strength of soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What most people call instinct in people is really the interpretation of small subconscious cues.
— Claudia Gray
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
— Don Marquis
One puzzling thing about men they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them. — Joan Fontaine
By all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct.
— Steve Pavlina
Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.
— Gayle D. Erwin
I work by instinct. You never hear anything new; when you hear advice that makes sense, it's something you already know.
— Jerrod Carmichael
As you consider your next move, practice this definition of trust: the willingness to take steps while simultaneously waiting for "instructions.
— Gina Greenlee
If you listen to music daily, you find strength of survival.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am, sir. It is my way - it always was my way, by instinct - ever to meet the brief with brevity, the direct with plainness.
— Charlotte Bronte
I'm adding 'canine' to my searches," I said. "And 'instinct.'" "Whatever. I'm adding 'lunatic.
— Kathy Reichs
There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.
— Albert Einstein
Experience is a question of instinct about life.
— Oscar Wilde
Trust your instinct in areas you have some background because your instinct is informed and not blind. - L. R. W. Lee
— L.R.W. Lee
My first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press.
— Veronica Roth
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
— Alexander Pope
The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure.
— Lofty Wiseman
A tendency toward enthusiasm and a chivalrous instinct have more than once been weighed as evidence of a lack of judgment.
— Lloyd Paul Stryker
The greatest souls have survived deep distress and mental-ill health.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The Hand (Kara-Te) is the cutting edge of the Mind
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.
— Jack Dreyfus
Illusion is seed of instinct.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I'd rather be on the ground than underTo feel the heavy rain and the thunder. — Ana Claudia Antunes
Reason must sit at the knee of instinct and learn reverence for the miraculous instinctual capacity for creation.
— Jonathan Schell
Boxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct.
— Sugar Ray Leonard
The biggest thing I've learned is to listen to my own gut. I have learned to trust my instincts.
— Jeff Foxworthy
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
— Prince Philip
At some point in my life, it became hard to tell what my gut instinct told me and what my programmed mind had interfered with.
— A.M. Martinez
Our cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself.
— Seth Godin
Karate is action, survival, living; hesitation is paralysis, reaction, mortality
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
— Alexander Pope
I have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment.
— Ravi Shankar
If you wish to be happy, listen to your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I follow my instincts and my excitement.
— Rory MacDonald
Survival requires guts and instinct.
— Toba Beta
Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
— William Cowper
Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.
— Bishop T. D. Jakes
Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.
— Elie Tahari
My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.
— Florence Welch
Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Oh, that wasn't a failure. That was a key moment of my development that I needed to take, and I can trust my instinct. I really can.
— Timothy Ferriss
The voice within is the voice of a sacred soul.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Just another part of that Spartan killer instinct. I can slay the ladies just as well as I can reapers.
— Jennifer Estep
Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct.
— Daniel Radcliffe
Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.
— Robert A. Heinlein
There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully.
— Jennie Allen
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.
— Benjamin Disraeli
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
— Georgette Heyer
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
— William James
Now I know. If God himself stood before me and said, "Give me that child, that I might slaughter him," I would tell him, "BITE ME!
— Julie McGalliard
I don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them.
— Donatella Versace
Taking men as they have been and are, they are subjects of passion, emotion, and instinct. Only
— William Graham Sumner
But a nation which has people who can think, the nation already has strength. It is the mind which rules, not instinct or habit.
— F. Sionil Jose
I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.
— George Orwell
I write out of instinct.
— Jerome Weidman
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
— Albert Camus
What is the use of fine feelings when pitted against the power of instinct? And what chance does modest restraint have against that of natural desire?
— Guy De Maupassant
Instinct chooses her own children.
— Gregory David Roberts
