Instinct Quotes

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.

What better way to discover the unknown than to follow your instincts instead of your plans.

People have a need for certainty - and that need for certainty is in every human being, certainty that you can avoid pain, certainty that you can at least be comfortable. It's a survival instinct.

It's good to go with your gut instincts in life. You just should. Even if it doesn't work out, something good will come out of it.

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.

By dint of making sacrifices, a man grows interested in the person who exacts them. Great ladies, like courtesans, know this truth by instinct.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

Never give up, trust your instincts!

Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Before you look to blame another, look within yourself, for at some point you have not listened to your own instincts.

I believe a lot in instinct. One should never dull it by wanting to know everything. One shouldn't ask too many questions but do what one does properly, never rush, and never torment oneself.

The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

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.

I follow my instincts and my excitement.

Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it.

It's pure instinct that makes me rebel every time someone tries to control my life and hand out more rules.

I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

My style of playing is more enthusiasm and instinct than skill.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power.

You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized.

I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

The 'look of love' not only communicates our feeling of love for someone but also reflects our instinct to do whatever it takes to make that person happy.

I believe that instinct is what makes a genius a genius.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Learn to nurture and trust your instincts as well as your conscious reasoning. Often, one's instincts will offer the better judgment.