Quotes with instinct

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  • Lord George Byron There is no instinct like that of the heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bliss Carman There is only one way in the world to be distinguished Follow your instinct! Be yourself, and you'll be somebody. Be one more blind follower of the blind, and you will have the oblivion you desire.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Malcolm Muggeridge This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Jane Harrison To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.
    Jane Harrison
    British classical scholar and linguist
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  • Guillaume Apollinaire To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.
    Guillaume Apollinaire
    Italian-born French poet, critic (1880 - 1918)
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  • Samuel Butler To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Mikhail Bakunin 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.
    Mikhail Bakunin
    Russian politicial theorist (1814 - 1876)
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  • Ben Foster Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Billy Wilder Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Sigmund Freud We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ovid What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Pat Riley When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, its ready to climb.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Hector Hugh Munro 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.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • William James A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Elbert Hubbard A person born with an instinct for poverty.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Pablo Picasso 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
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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