Quotes with instinct

  • Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
  • I do not know whether there be, as a rule, more vocal expression of the sentiment of love between a man and a woman, than there is between two thrushes. They whistle and call to each other, guided by instinct rather than by reason.
  • To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
  • Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
  • Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
  • You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
  • 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.
  • The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.
  • One of the things that I loved about listening to Miles Davis is that Miles always had an instinct for which musicians were great for what situations. He could always pick a band, and that was the thing that separated him from everybody else.
  • To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson I believe in instinct, not in reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Edmund Burke Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • C. S. Lewis 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
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Addison There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Prince Philip All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
    Prince Philip
    British prince, husband of Queen Elizabeth II (1921 - 2021)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz An intellectual instinct which extracts the essence from the phenomena of life, as a bee sucks honey from a flower. In addition to study and reflections, life itself serves as a source.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bill Brandt And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
    Bill Brandt
    British photographer and photojournalist (1904 - 1983)
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  • Arnold Bennett Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper Bullies are always cowards at heart and may be credited with a pretty safe instinct in scenting their prey.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Bertrand Russell Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bertrand Russell Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
    An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Ben Elton Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Josh Billings Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Bjork Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Carl Sagan For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Saki He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
    Saki
    British writer, pen name of Hugh Munro (1870 - 1916)
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  • Albert Einstein Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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