Quotes with impulse

Quotes 41 till 47 of 47.

• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

  Ovid
  Roman poet (43 - 17)
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• When we want to know God's will, there are three things which always concur: the inward impulse, the Word of God and the trend of circumstances. Never act until these three things agree.

  F. B. Meyer
   
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• Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

  Terence
  Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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• One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

  Helen Keller
  American writer (1880 - 1968)
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• The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it.

  Joan Didion
  American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• circumstances
• inexplicable
• peculiarly
• compulsive
• whereas
• consent

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