Instinct Quotes

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

I rely a great deal on animal instincts.

If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.

The instinct that pulls us toward art is the impulse to evolve, to learn, to heighten and elevate our consciousness. The Ego hates this. Because the more awake we become, the less we need the Ego.

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands.

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one.

To unmask the deceit of every instinct for preservation is to procure salvation for humanity in nothingness.. ..Nothingness must be defined as the absense of all willing.

Trust your instincts, and take control.

I have a woman's instinct and it's always a good one.

As a conductor I find the hardest tasks are to listen to the instinct of a musician and to hear the music behind the notes.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

You cannot love without intuition.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.

Human beings are much better at breaking up than they are at getting together. The instinct to get together is very powerful, but it doesn't last long.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

You have to go with your instincts.

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct.

The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

The literary scene is a kind of Medusa’s raft, small and sinking, and one’s instinct when a newcomer tries to clamber aboard is to step on his fingers.

My daughter, Lila, is my style critic. She'll say, "No, Mummy, you can't wear that." She's very good. I do trust her instinct.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

When a beggar asks us for a quarter, our instinct is to say that the State has already confiscated our quarter for his benefit, and he should go to the State about it.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body.

Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.

Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction.

I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.

You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

Great souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

The collector walks with blinders on; he sees nothing but the prize. In fact, the acquisitive instinct is incompatible with true appreciation of beauty.

Intellect has to surrender to instinct when it is time to play.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation.