Instinct Quotes

• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.505

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• Our drives are reducible to the will to power. The will to power is the ultimate fact at which we arrive.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Power, Facts, Ultimate

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• You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Knowledge, Roots, Progress

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

  Benjamin Spock

  Mom, Mother, Baby

  Benjamin Spock, Robert Needlman (2012). “Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care: 9th Edition”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

  Anne Lamott

  Space, Mind, Intuition

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.112, Anchor

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• I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

  A. C. Benson

  Believe, Nine, Reason

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• Synchronicity is choreographed by a great, pervasive intelligence that lies at the heart of nature, and is manifest in each of us through intuitive knowledge.

  Deepak Chopra

  Love, Positive, Lying

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• I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

  Peter Straub

  Fate, Intuition, Wade

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June, 1997.

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• I think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life.

  Armistead Maupin

  Thinking, Intuition, Storytelling

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• Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Order, Matter, Taste

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Enthusiasm, Artist

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• And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.

  Bill Brandt

  Photography, Dark, Light

  Bill Brandt (1948). “Camera in London”

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• 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.

  Ayrton Senna

  Car, Different, Dimensions

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• Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it than others, but we all do it.

  Laurence Olivier

  Intuition, Natural Instinct, Inherent

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.

  Jonas Salk

  Creativity, Thinking, Psychics

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

  Anne Archer

  Odds, Soul, Actors

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• There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

  Steve Irwin

  Dad, Intuition, Lucky

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• From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Love, Creativity, Creative

  Carl Gustav Jung (1960). “The structure and dynamics of the psyche”

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• Often you have to rely on intuition.

  Bill Gates

  Intuition, Hunches, Rely

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

  Sherwin B. Nuland

  Fall, Symphony, Demand

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• I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, Comedy, Elusive

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• No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Inspirational, Trust, Entrepreneur

  Cherry blossoms and robotics, 1983.

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• You needn't tell me that a man who doesn't love oysters and asparagus and good wines has got a soul, or a stomach either. He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Food, Wine, Men

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.391, Delphi Classics

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• He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Wisdom, Self, Rich

  "Scoop". Book by Evelyn Waugh, 1938.

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• All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Men, Healthy, Conflict

  "The Silence of the Sea". Book by Hilaire Belloc, 1940.

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