Instinct Quotes - page 2

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! (Theodore Sturgeon)
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. View quote
Denis Leary
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. View quote
Saki
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. View quote
Don Marquis
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. View quote
F. H. Bradley
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. View quote
William Wordsworth
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. (Wendell Phillips)
Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it. View quote
Laurence Olivier
There is no instinct like that of the heart. View quote
Lord Byron
Do I know I'm right? Judgements aren't the same as facts. Instinct is not science. I'm like any other human being, as fallible and as capable of being wrong. I only know what I believe. View quote
Tony Blair
My business savvy it's instinct. Everything I do is just really my intuition, and every time I go against my intuition, it's a mistake. Even though I may sit down and analyze and intellectualize something on paper, if I go against my gut feeling, it's wrong. View quote
Tamara Mellon
God gave women instinct and womanliness. Utilized appropriately, the combo effortlessly disorders the mind of any man I've ever met. View quote
Farrah Fawcett
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child. View quote
Gregory David Roberts
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. View quote
Edith Head
To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing. View quote
Jesse Helms
Only through blind Instinct, in which the only possible guidance of the Imperative is awanting, does the Power in Intuition remain undetermined; where it is schematised as absolute it becomes infinite; and where it is presented in a determinate form, as a principle, it becomes at least manifold. By the above-mentioned act of Intelligising, the Power liberates itself from Instinct, to direct itself towards Unity. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over. (Halle Berry)
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. View quote
Germaine Greer
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. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Instinct leads, intelligence does but follow. View quote
William James
There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then. View quote
Steve Irwin