Innate Quotes

We are not only gregarious animals, liking to be in sight of our fellows, but we have an innate propensity to get ourselves noticed, and noticed favorably, by our kind.

There has to be innate circuitry that does the learning, that creates the culture, that acquires the culture, and that responds to socialization.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

The greatest poem ever known Is one all poets have outgrown: The poetry, innate, untold, Of being only four years old.

All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

The one common thread is purity. I created a look that highlights the innate beauty of the face from the eyes to the lip to clear, shiny skin.

Coming from California and growing up where I did, I've always had a fondness for and innate sensitivity to light, texture, and warmth.

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

As one of us transforms we activate transformational energies in others, which enables them to more readily reconnect with the wisdom of their innate creative source.

Even the most primite societies have an innate resepect for the insane.

If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children.

Innate ideas are in every man, born with him; they are truly himself. The man who says that we have no innate ideas must be a fool and knave, having no conscience or innate science.

One should not ascribe the evil deeds of individual leaders or political regimes to an innate fault of the Russian people and their country.

Censorship is all around us, I don't think it's innate.

[T]here is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.

There's innate competition, I think, between mothers and daughters - mine no more so than anyone else.

I think it's innate in human nature to want to make a difference, to make your life meaningful.

There was, I think, never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

I think story-telling is innate in human beings, it's something that we've done since we scrawled across cave walls.

You can't bury a part of yourself that's so innate to who you've been, even if it's not for the sake of anything other than a pure enjoyment of it.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.

The drive to want to know is innate in people. You cannot influence this. I think in contrast it is harmful if you push kids too far in a particular direction.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.

There is an innate decorum in man, and it is not fair to thrust Truth upon people when they don't expect it. Only the very generous are ready for Truth impromptu.

Democracy and equality try to denythe mystic recognition of difference and innate priority, the joy of obedience and the sacred responsibility of authority.

Choose to make up for what you lack in innate ability with discipline, hard work, and good habits. Become a creature of champion habits.

She didn't smile back. Not even a little. I totally needed to read that book on how to win friends and influence people. But that would involve an innate desire to win friends and influence people.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'

Man could not stay there forever. He was bound to spread to new regions, partly because of his innate migratory tendency and partly because of Nature's stern urgency.

Natural talent is a questionable phenomenon. Inclination perhaps, but innate ability is extremely rare.

There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.

I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities.

C. S. Lewis, Plato, Aristotle and many more names that I could add, including Einstein's, were individuals who were able to see the innate order in life, which others perceive as chaos.

The human mind generates an auric field that covers up naturalness, innate divinity of life. That auric field is a field of doubt.

When we are very young children we know how to feel. It's innate. But as we lead a lifetime, we pick up so many thoughts, impressions, feelings, and ideas, that our sensitivity goes away.

You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.

There's this absurd innate need in most men to feel that they're more powerful than women are, which is ridiculous.

Enthusiasm is more important to mastery than innate ability.

Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important element in developing an expertise is your willingness to practice.

Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect.

I like entertainment. I'm an innate admirer of good entertainment. I'll listen to MTV, I'll listen to Mozart, I'll listen to anything that has a good element in it.

What's absolutely impossible to prove is the idea of innate and everlasting equality.

I've always had an innate ability to dance, but I'm not as spiffy as those cinema legends like Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire.

Let me put it more precisely: The ability to give birth is a natural characteristic. In the same way, everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

There is nothing nicer than a kitchen really made for a cook. Things that are designed to be used always have an innate beauty.

Birth is a dream, spontaneous and innate. Death, on the other hand, is a slow, false, divine calamity. It is like love.