Instinct Quotes - Page 4

• The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Happiness, Trust, Intuition

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• Great thoughts, great feelings came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

  Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

  Feelings, Great Feelings

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• But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Friendship, True Friend, Men

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2010). “Living in Two Worlds: The American Indian Experience Illustrated”, p.164, World Wisdom, Inc

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• Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Intuition, Way

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.124, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Intuition, Natural Instinct, Today

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• I think that perhaps we always fall in love the very first instant we see the man of our dreams, even though, at the time, reason may be telling us otherwise, and we may fight against that instinct, hoping against hope that we won't win, until there comes a point when we allow ourselves to be vanquished by our feelings.

  Paulo Coelho

  Dream, Falling In Love, Fighting

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• A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.

  Lynn Abbey

  Writing, Intuition, Stories

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• The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion and manifestation of an extreme specialization of the intuitive mind, shows very beautifully the unity and complementary nature of the rational and intuitive modes of consciousness; of the yang and the yin.

  Fritjof Capra

  Essence, Unity, Intuition

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• An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

  Henri Bergson

  Philosophical, Intuition, Analysis

  Henri Bergson (1961). “Introduction to metaphysics”

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

  F. H. Bradley

  Believe, Reason, Metaphysics

  Appearance and Reality (1893) preface

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• We believe no evil till the evil's done

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Believe, Evil, Done

  Jean de La Fontaine (1860). “Fables”, p.19

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• Reason is the servant of instinct.

  Clarence Day

  Intuition, Reason, Servant

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• Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

  Bertrand Russell

  Xenophobia, Fear, Racism

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.70, Routledge

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  As soon as you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

  Ayrton Senna

  Determination, Racing, Mind

  "Ayrton Senna: Racing Is in My Blood". Documentary, 1992.

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• Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.

  Edith Head

  Fashion, Language, Knows

  EDITH HEAD (1959). “The Dress Doctor”

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• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

  Barbra Streisand

  Worry, Experience, Natural Instinct

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• He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Happiness, Oysters, Unhappy

  Chronicles of Clovis (1911) "The Match-Maker"

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• Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Earth, Spontaneity, Unconsciousness

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• As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Horse, Animal, Intuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2004). “A Dream Too Wild: Emerson Meditations for Every Day of the Year”, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Encouragement

  Richard Branson (2005). “Losing My Virginity: The Autobiography”, Virgin Pub

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• The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach

  Sophocles

  Learning, Men, Intuition

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Trust, Choices

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.148

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

  William Shakespeare

  Coward, Matter

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.663, BookCaps Study Guides

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• 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

  Soul, Reason, Superficial

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1992). “Reasoning and the Logic of Things: The Cambridge Conferences Lectures of 1898”, p.121, Harvard University Press

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