Instinct Quotes

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

Strength, Courage, Woman

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin

Trust, Woman, Reason

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
C. S. Lewis

War, Different, Rest

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Trust, End, Reason

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Wisdom, Poetry, Mean

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Experience, Wise, Stupid

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

Best, Woman, Intuition

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There is no instinct like that of the heart.
Lord Byron

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.
Ayrton Senna

Power, Experience, Mind

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.
Albert Camus

Nature, Law, Same

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
Mae West

Love, Art, Emotion

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

Trust, Mistakes, Someone

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
Walt Disney

Nature, Wild, Guess

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
Carl Jung

Mind, Play, Acting

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.
Sigmund Freud

Impossible, Overlook, Built

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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
Anatole France

Love, Art, Enough

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

Fear, Toward, Collective

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso

Love, Beauty, Art

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.
Honore de Balzac

Love, Heart, Nothing

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

Love, Live, Reason

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

Reason, Essence, Followed

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

Nature, Men, Experience

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Great, Passion, Fame

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Great, Passion, Fame

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Anna Kendrick

Good, Someone, Game

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler

Life, Music, Feeling

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
Golda Meir

Nothing, Doubt, Blame

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.
Max Beerbohm

Nature, Destroy, Strongest

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
Woodrow Wilson

Friendship, Teacher, Long

Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through.
Germaine Greer

Pain, Spiritual, May

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