Instinct Quotes - page 7

People just don't laugh when their family is violated, and you don't shrug it off. You band together and you defend together. It's a funny, primitive instinct. (Phillip Noyce)
Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make. View quote
Paul Berg
You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment. View quote
Rouben Mamoulian
The ugly is very appealing to man. It's instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There's a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. View quote
Sonya Levien
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. View quote
Stone Gossard
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk. View quote
W. L. George
Instinct is blind;-a consciousness without insight. Freedom, as the opposite of Instinct, is thus seeing, and clearly conscious of the grounds of its activity. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
The Present Age, according to my view of it, stands in that Epoch which in my former lecture I named the THIRD, and which I characterized as the Epoch of Liberation-directly from the external ruling Authority, indirectly from the power of Reason as Instinct, and generally from Reason in any form; the Age of absolute indifference towards all truth, and of entire and unrestrained licentiousness:–the state of completed sinfulness. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Among other men Reason awakes in another form-as the impulse towards Personal Freedom, which, although it never opposes the mild rule of the inward Instinct which it loves, yet rises in rebellion against the pressure of a stranger Instinct which has usurped its rights; and in this awakening it breaks the chains,-not of Reason as Instinct itself, but of the Instinct of foreign natures clothed in the garb of external power. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Tenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. View quote
Michel Houellebecq
An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life. (José Martí)
Make no mistake: I do not valorize our military out of some unfamiliar instinct. I grew up in a military family, and have my own record of service, and have stayed closely engaged with our armed forces throughout my public career. In the American system, the military has value only inasmuch as it protects and defends the liberties of the people. View quote
John McCain
On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit. And you then go for this limit and you touch this limit, and you think, 'Okay, this is the limit.' As soon as 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
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. View quote
Ayrton Senna
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. View quote
Isabelle Adjani
Mr. Ingleby: You don't need an argument for buying butter. It's a natural, human instinct. View quote
Dorothy L. Sayers
instinct leads me to another flow. View quote
Queen Latifah
The night wind rises. Does my father live? Dark hangs upon the waters of the soul. My flesh is breathing slower than a wall. Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard sweat of the mind. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road. (James Thurber)
"Reason and Instinct!" How we love to play with words that please our pride; Our noble race's mean descent by false forged titles seek to hide! For "gift divine" I bid you read the better work of higher brain, From Instinct diff'ering in degree as golden mine from leaden vein. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish. View quote
Michael Shermer
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. View quote
Blaise Pascal
Because men that are free, well-born, well-bred, and conversant in honest companies, have naturally an instinct and spur that prompteth them unto virtuous actions, and withdraws them from vice, which is called honour. Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition, by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude, wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. View quote
François Rabelais