Instinct famous quotes
05-18-2025
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Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
-- Agatha Christie -
I never can stand seeing people pleased with themselves,†said Joanna. “It arouses all my worst instincts.
-- Agatha Christie -
I always go by instinct and then wrestle with where by instinct brought me.
-- Al Sharpton -
I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.
-- Alan Bennett -
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out.
-- Alan Sugar -
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.
-- Albert J. Nock -
My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.
-- Albert Rosenfeld -
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
-- Alexander Pope -
But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.
-- Alexander Pope -
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine.
-- Alexander Pope -
Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst.
-- Alexandra Kollontai -
Education is not sermonizing to children against their instincts and pleasures, but providing a natural continuity between what they feel and what they can and should be.
-- Allan Bloom -
You should always trust the instincts of children.
-- Ally Carter -
When publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
I've noticed it a lot. I'm not someone who revises. It's always the first movement, it's that. It's an instinct. Either it works straight away, or it won't ever work.
-- Amelie Nothomb -
Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
Doubt everything [...]. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.
-- Amy Plum -
I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.
-- Andrea Arnold -
I don't really follow market research. In the end, I respond to my own instincts.
-- Anna Wintour -
Janice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part.
-- Anne Fortier -
The more knowledge you have, the more you're free to rely on your instincts.
-- Arnold Schwarzenegger -
I think comedy is more my instinct and more what I'm geared towards.
-- Austin Peck -
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic.
-- Barbara Demick -
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
-- Barbara Mertz -
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.
-- Barbara Pym -
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
-- Barbra Streisand -
You picked the seats you did for a reason, right? Familiarity. Too bad the best sleuths avoid familiarity. It dulls the investigative instinct.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
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.
-- Ben Elton -
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.
-- Bertrand Russell -
There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
-- Blaise Pascal -
Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct.
-- Boris Sidis -
I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.
-- Boz Scaggs -
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !
-- Bruce H. Lipton -
I think you always have to go as an artist with instinct, I really do.
-- Carla Gugino -
Humans will always tell you the story. Dogs can only tell you the truth. Trust your instincts and listen your dog.
-- Cesar Millan -
Never presume that I will not act on my worst instincts.
-- Cesare Borgia -
No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
-- Charles Comiskey -
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
-- Charles Darwin -
There's a natural instinct embedded in friendship, a sympathy that makes us willing to fight for someone we like when they are treated unjustly.
-- Charles Duhigg -
The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
-- Charles Macklin -
We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.
-- Charles Sanders Peirce -
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity.
-- Chris Bosh -
You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.
-- Chris Hughes -
Women, with their sure instincts, realized that my intention was to make them not just more beautiful but also happier.
-- Christian Dior -
Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there.
-- Christopher Alexander -
There is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over.
-- Cindy Nelson -
If a woman's got any instincts, she feels when her husband's off the reservation.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.
-- Clarence Darrow -
When a creature is exposed to violence, it will tend to adapt to that disturbance, so that when the violence ceases or the creature is allowed its freedom, the healthy instinct to flee is hugely diminished, and the creature stays put instead.
-- Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
Impressionism is only direct sensation. All great painters were less or more impressionists. It is mainly a question of instinct, and much simpler than [John Singer] Sargent thinks.
-- Claude Monet -
I've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't.
-- Claudette Colbert -
You have to trust your instincts. There is a moment when an actor has it, and he knows it.
-- Clint Eastwood -
From when I was really young one of the first things I did was to perform and do shows. It was like a natural instinct.
-- Colin Morgan -
It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.
-- Conway Twitty -
What you intuitively desire, that is possible to you.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
-- Daisy Whitney -
I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.
-- Daniel Radcliffe -
I would say that when I came into this chapter of my filmmaking career, starting with 'The Fighter,' there was this sense that you have to go from your instincts and you have to go from your gut, and you have to not hesitate and you have to not hedge.
-- David O. Russell -
A novel must be a rich forest known at the start only by instinct.
-- Dawn Powell -
When anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better.
-- Didi Conn -
Intuition is more than knowledge, and truth comes pure from the heart.
-- Don Bradley -
I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.
-- Donna Murphy -
If I listened to my instincts, I'd be down at the pub chasing women, not under a 400 pound bar squatting
-- Dorian Yates -
Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
-- Edith Head -
My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.
-- Edith Piaf -
Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It’s an animalistic instinct for survival.
-- Elie Tahari -
My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.
-- Eliot Porter -
Because trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel -
It would be sad if we lost our instinct and our courage to love and protect.
-- Emeli Sande -
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
-- Emily Eden -
All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone.
-- Emma Watson -
Deeper than our instinct to live is our longing to be alive.
-- Erwin McManus -
The herd instinct is the new chic! It's like belonging to a club!...
-- Eugenia Sheppard -
I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.
-- Evander Holyfield -
Apart from Scottish traditional music, I wasn't really influenced by any kind of music. I just basically followed my own instincts.
-- Evelyn Glennie -
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct.
-- F. H. Bradley -
I’ve never lived my life by the expectations society puts on you. When something doesn’t feel right or isn’t going the way it should, I listen to my instincts and change it.
-- Fatima Robinson -
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
-- Finley Peter Dunne -
Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.
-- Frances Mayes -
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
-- Francis William Newman -
Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition.
-- Fred Frith -
What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.
-- George Jean Nathan -
What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing.
-- George Orwell -
No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.
-- Georgette Heyer -
In all my public and private acts as your president, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end.
-- Gerald R. Ford -
You don't get Billie Joe Armstrong's autograph on your forehead without following your instincts.
-- Gordon Korman
