Instinct Quotes

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. (Oscar Wilde)
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. View quote
Socrates
Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art. View quote
Mae West
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
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. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
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. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
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. View quote
Carl Jung
In art as in love, instinct is enough. View quote
Anatole France
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. View quote
Henry Winkler
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. (Evelyn Waugh)
She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners. View quote
Louisa May Alcott
Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. View quote
William Cowper
All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. View quote
Billy Wilder
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. View quote
Sophocles
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. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
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)
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason. View quote
Charles Darwin
Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do. View quote
Karel Čapek
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. View quote
Edmund Burke
The ultimate, angels' law, Indulging every instinct of the soul There where law, life, joy, impulse are one thing. View quote
Robert Browning