Instinct Quotes - Page 17

• The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.

  Emmet Gowin

  Photography, Heart, Ideas

  "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

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• My emotions, instincts, and interests are all with nature.

  Eliot Porter

  Photography, Emotion, Photographer

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• I am interested only in the relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the conditions were unusually favourable for the development of the individual; not by any means owing to the goodness of the people, but because of the struggles of their evil instincts.With the help of favourable measures great individuals might be reared who would be both different from and higher than those who heretofore have owed their existence to mere chance. Here we may still be hopeful: in the rearing of exceptional men.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Struggle, Mean, Men

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• One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sports, Ocean, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Watches, Impress, Species

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• The time is ripe, and rotten-ripe, for change; Then let it come: I have no dread of what Is called for by the instinct of mankind. Nor think I that God's world would fall apart Because we tear a parchment more or less. Truth is eternal, but her effluence, With endless change, is fitted to the hour; Her mirror is turned forward, to reflect The promise of the future, not the past. I do not fear to follow out the truth.

  James Russell Lowell

  Fall, Past, Thinking

  James Russell Lowell (1844). “Poems”, p.178

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• An adult who does not understand that a child needs to use his hands and does not recognize this as the first manifestation of an instinct for work can be an obstacle to the child's development

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Hands, Firsts

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• Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Men, Kind, Cruelty

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.458, 谷月社

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• Appetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Hunger, Appetite, Providence

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.16, University of Georgia Press

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• No matter what these terrorists do, I refuse to be terrorized. All this requires is just a few alterations in our day to day lives. For example, my first instinct when I receive an envelope full of white powder... is to snort it! I just won't do that this time!

  Margaret Cho

  White, Firsts, Example

  "Margaret Cho: Notorious C.H.O". TV Special, June 13, 2002.

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• My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything?

  Saul Bellow

  Life, Mean, Mind

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I prepare to the point where instinct take over.

  Stephen Curry

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• I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts.

  George Orwell

  Trying, Hard, Whole Truth

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.315, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.

  George Santayana

  Fighting, Men, Opposites

  George Santayana (2015). “The Life of Reason: Human Understanding”, p.55, 谷月社

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Appreciation, Acquisition, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.111, Random House

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• A person born with an instinct for poverty.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Poetry, Poverty, Born

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Lying, Cocky, Squares

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• The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.

  Karl Abraham

  Able, Assault, Mania

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers on Psychoanalysis”, p.137, Karnac Books

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• Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.

  Karl Abraham

  Normal, Patient, States

  Karl Abraham (1988). “Selected Papers of Karl Abraham, M.D.”

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

  Julian Barnes

  Self, Survival, Preservation

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.42, Random House

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• Money is a sort of instinct. It's a sort of property of nature in a person to make money. It's nothing you do. It's no trick you play. It's a sort of permanent accident of your own nature; once you start, you make money, and you go on. . . But you've got to begin. . . You've got to get in. You can do nothing if you are kept outside. You've got to beat your way in. Once you've done that, you can't help it!

  D. H. Lawrence

  Money, Play, Done

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1605, Simon and Schuster

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• Earnest is our dog. She senses instantly that something is wrong, and guided by that timeless and unerring nurturing instinct that all female dogs have, she tries to lick my ears off.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Dog, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• The sentiments of an adult are compounded of a kernel of instinct surrounded by a vast husk of education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Adults, Opinion, Sentiments

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• I trust my instincts.

  Billy Zane

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

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• When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  People, Giving, Charity

  Hector Hugh Munro (Saki) (2015). “Beasts and Super-Beasts”, p.156, Read Books Ltd

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