Instinct Quotes

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't c...

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built up upon a renunciation of ins...

One thus gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority...

The instinct of self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of ...

I believe instinct's the iron skeleton under all our ideas of free will. Unless you're willing to ta...

Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn ...

This boy - his name was Eric - said he thought it disgusting the way all the girls at my college sto...

The difficult thing is not to pick up the information but to recognise it - to accept it into our co...

We are tossed about by external causes in many ways, and like waves driven by contrary winds, we wav...

In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my kno...

Can we account for instinct?' said Monte Cristo. 'Are there not some places where we seem to breathe...

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

Miss Morstan and I stood together, and her hand was in mine. A wondrous subtle thing is love, for he...

All my instincts are one way, and all the facts are the other, and I much fear that British juries h...

A dog can’t think that much about what he’s doing, he just does what feels right.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

The feeling of loathing had as yet no permanence or strength in the dog’s soul. The newly awakened j...

Nimrod began to understand that what he was experiencing was, in spite of its appearance of novelty,...

Tabini was at least canny enough in the differences between atevi and human to know that, gut level,...

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do ...

All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is th...

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so ove...

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for de...

Trust your instincts, and make judgements on what your heart tells you. The heart will not betray yo...

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of m...

My temperament and my instinct had told me alike that the author, who writes at his own emergency, r...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. I...

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hu...

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

You can have tons of talent, but it won't necessarily keep you fed. If you have sharp instincts, thr...

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence pe...

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purpose...

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

As they prepared themselves to go ashore no one doubted in theory that at least a certain percentage...

Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagi...

There is no instinct like that of the heart.

What do you call yourself?" the Fawn said at last. Such a soft sweet voice it had!"I wish I knew!" t...

Of course there are mothers,squeezing their breastsdry, pawning their bodies,shedding teeth for thei...

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not qu...

In their huge bedroom that night, Tyr said to Thor, "I hope you know what you are doing.""Of course ...

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the surviva...

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man.

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do.

instinct leads me to another flow

There seemed no answer. He wasn't resigned to anything, he hadn't accepted or adjusted to the life h...

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you ...

What we call patriotism, in other words, is a calculable force which, released by a predictable situ...

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

Obviously, a rigid, blinkered, absolutist world view is the easiest to keep hold of, whereas the flu...

Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.