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[Our understanding is] not intellectual, but instinctive.
— Ann Richards
Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.
— Bertrand Russell
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
— George Orwell
I am certain that most Germans have instinctive liking for Italy, just as Italians admire Germans for their many qualities.
— Mario Monti
The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.
— Britta Phillips
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.
— Paul Monroe
Love isn't rational, it's instinctive
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
When your life is being threatened there's an instinctive urge to fight. You fight for the time you have, for your relationships.
— Laura Linney
My anatomy was self-taught. I feel everybody has that ability. I drew instinctively. Mine was an instinctive style.
— Jack Kirby
Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.
— Ernest Renan
Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.
— Sophie Swetchine
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
— F. Murray Abraham
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
— Thorstein Veblen
In our instinctive rebellion against pain, we are children again, and demand an active will to wreak our vengeance on.
— George Eliot
Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
— Austin Osman Spare
All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
— Bertrand Russell
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
— Bliss Carman
The snake who tempted Eve to eat the forbidden fruit was not the Devil, but her own instinctive nature saying, Honor your hunger and feed yourself.
— Terry Tempest Williams
For me, as I began to see the light at the end of the tunnel, I became aware of how on an instinctive level I made choices to cover myself.
— Rene Auberjonois
The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles
— Joseph Brodsky
In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.
— Arthur Keith
Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.
— Malcolm Gladwell
Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.
— Edward Hall
It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.
— Charles Darwin
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
You've got to go with what feels instinctive and true to your heart, and filter out all of the other stuff.
— Alison Goldfrapp
I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
— Yann Tiersen
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
I'm awed by how much iron will it would take to override his instinctive needs. And how much trust.
— Susan Ee
The emotions at death, as at birth, are instinctive and primitive.
— Margaret Millar
All things resist destruction, according to their capacity. Rocks, pebbles, diamonds. Unity is instinctive to being.
— Jan Siegel
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.
— Abigail Padgett
I'm just an instinctive actress, I've never had a lesson in my life.
— Elizabeth Taylor
The women fell silent with the instinctive courtesy women often show to incapacitated males.
— Robert Galbraith
Madonna's great instinctive intelligence was evident to me from her earliest videos.
— Camille Paglia
I've realized now that hope almost never goes together with reason. It's something quite irrational and instinctive.
— Vasily Grossman
What I look for is neither reality nor unreality but the subconscious, the instinctive mystery of the human race.
— Amedeo Modigliani
The desire to run comes from deep within us - from the unconscious, the instinctive, the intuitive.
— George A. Sheehan
I'm an instinctive actor. I just see the part and play it. I'm more interested in what isn't said - the silences.
— Philip Glenister
Ove feels an instinctive skepticism towards all people taller than six feet; the blood can't quite make it all the way up to the brain.
— Fredrik Backman
I'm not an instinctive actor.
— John Thaw
But it never ceases to amaze me how difficult the things that are supposed to be instinctive really are.
— Rachel Joyce
I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director.
— Andrea Arnold
Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.
— Haruki Murakami
I think that the ordinary bloke has an instinctive sense that it wouldn't be too bad if the weather warmed up.
— Nigel Lawson
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.
— Haruki Murakami
I am an absolute pacifist ... It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.
— Albert Einstein
The way I write is totally instinctive. I just write what I feel or what I find funny - and hope everyone else agrees.
— Sophie Kinsella
As an idea occurs to me, I'll either follow it or not, but I'm more instinctive than master-planner about stuff.
— John Darnielle
The single most instinctive evil is discrimination
— Rahul Bose
And children know,Instinctive taught, the friend and foe. — Walter Scott
In every good poem everything must be both deliberate and instinctive. That is how the poem becomes ideal.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
— L. Ron Hubbard
I have the instinctive reaction of a Western man when confronted with sublimely incomprehensible. I grab my camera and start to photograph it
— Douglas Adams
Violence is the instinctive response to fear.
— Margaret Millar
Much of the Western world emphasizes rationality and reason, but overlooks or ignores the enormous value of intuition and instinctive wisdom.
— Shakti Gawain
I think my water just broke.'I took an instinctive step back. Because, gross. 'Omigod. — Kieran Scott
People call me an instinctive actor. I used to consider that an insult early on, only because I had never studied. Now ... I love it.
— Danny Aiello
If you don't watch out, putting on your unhappiness in the morning can become as instinctive as putting on your clothes.
— Robert Breault
Sometimes I can spend months doing things to make sure that my instincts work correctly, but ultimately it's still instinctive.
— Rebecca Hall
The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.
— Betty Rollin
I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Usually the nonsense liberals spout is kind of cute, but in wartime their instinctive idiocy is life-threatening.
— Ann Coulter
However deep our devotion may be to parents or to children, it is our contemporaries alone with whom understanding is instinctive and entire.
— Vera Brittain
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
— William Henry Hudson
Women understand the workings of nature than men. They trust in their instincts while men consider this behavior weakness.
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
It seems that these phenomenal feats that race car drivers are performing are instinctive. They [require] very little mental workload.
— Chris Gerdes
The best acting is instinctive. It's not intellectual, it's not mechanical, it's instinctive.
— Craig MacDonald
Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.
— Douglas Southall Freeman
I'm pretty instinctive. I'm a quick learner.
— Shannon Elizabeth
I can't tell people how to have style. No amount of money can buy you style. It's just instinctive.
— Iris Apfel
Stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.
— Laura Lippman
