Instinct Quotes - Page 21

• Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

  Lawren Harris

  Beauty, Men, Games

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• When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Emotional, Long

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.132, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood.

  Rachel Carson

  Beautiful, Children, Garden

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

  Matthew Arnold

  Men, Light, Growth

  Matthew Arnold (1894). “Mixed Essays: Irish Essays and Others”

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. 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. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Believe, Home

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Jealous, Reflection, Self

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.77

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

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Revolution, Obedience, Results

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Men, Satisfaction, Concern

  Viktor E. Frankl (1966). “Man's Search for Meaning”

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• One of the fundamental demonstrations of our natural instinct to Bond with each other is a will to give. Rather than domination, our most basic urge is to reach out to another human being, even at a cost to ourselves. Giving to others-the urge to empathize, to be compassionate, and to help others altruistically-is not the exception to the rule, but our natural state of being. Our impulse to connect with each other has developed an automatic desire to do for others, even at personal cost. Altruism comes naturally to us. It is selfishness that is culturally conditioned and a sign of pathology.

  Lynne McTaggart

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Exception To The Rule

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• I follow my instincts and my excitement.

  Rory MacDonald

  Mma, Excitement

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• The warrior instinct comes in, the heart, determination, the will to win. Even though you're rocked you still have to fight hard, to come back.

  Timothy Bradley

  Determination, Heart, Fighting

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• I've had a great life following my faith and my instincts.

  Evander Holyfield

  Mma, Following

  Evander Holyfield (2008). “Becoming Holyfield: A Fighter's Journey”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• One of my missions is to get people to go, "Oh, she's really nice and I really like her, but what were the words she just said?!" I want your instincts to be at odds with your mind.

  Lucy Lawless

  Nice, Odds, People

  "SALEM: Lucy Lawless Talks Season 2, ASH VS. EVIL DEAD, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 6, 2015.

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• Every character lives in ever actor and if you're doing your job right, you're just accessing that part of your fantasy life. I can kill someone just as quickly as I can have sex with someone. You can switch that instinct, no matter what - you can pretend anything.

  Matthew Lillard

  Jobs, Sex, Character

  "Matthew Lillard on growing up". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. September 10, 2014.

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• I’ ve always been a fan of the basics. After you have a good solid foundation of Jiu-Jitsu, the rest comes by instinct. You create, invent. The rest is easy. The difficult part is the beginning.

  Carlos Gracie, Jr.

  Foundation, Fans, Jiu Jitsu

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• I am persuaded that if the brutes even--if the dog, the horse, the ox, the elephant, the bird, could speak, they would confess, that, at the bottom of their nature, their instincts, their sensations, their obtuse intelligence, assisted by organs less perfect than ours, there is a clouded, secret sentiment of this existence of a superior and primordial Being, from whom all emanates, and to whom all returns.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Dog, Horse, Elephants

  Alphonse de Lamartine (1850). “Lamartine on Atheism: Atheism Among the People”, p.11

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• That fundamentally undermines your ability to access the best part of your instincts. So my advice to those people would be stop thinking and introspecting so much and do a little more acting.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, People, Advice

  "Gladwell reaches his tipping point", www.cnn.com. March 29, 2005.

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• You must have the discipline and temperament to resist your impulses. Human beings have precisely the wrong instincts when it comes to the markets. If you recognise this, you can resist the urge to buy into a rally and sell into a decline. It’s also helpful to remember the power of compounding. You don’t need to stretch for returns to grow your capital over the course of your life.

  Irving Kahn

  Discipline, Needs, Return

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• The ignorant frighten children with ghosts, and the better educated assure them there is no such thing. Our understanding may believe the latter, but our instincts believe the former; so that, out of this education, we retain the terror, and just believe enough to make it very troublesome whenever we are placed in circumstances that awaken it.

  Catherine Crowe

  Children, Believe, Understanding

  Catherine Crowe (1850). “The night-side of nature; or, Ghosts and ghost-seers”, p.174

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• Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of "equal" rights.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Revenge, Hate, Rights

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.390, Penguin

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• Like birds of passage, the instincts drift the soul adventurously beyond the horizon of sensible things, as if intent on convoying it to the mother country from whence it had flown.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Country, Mother, Bird

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• The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor, a little body with a mighty heart, then all its habits, even that said to be recently observed, that it never sleeps, become sublime.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Heart, Sleep, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2006). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: Selected Essays, Lectures and Poems”, p.29, Bantam Classics

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• We falter from childhood amidst shames and fears, we move in closed spaces where stale tradition enervates, we grow hysterical over success and failure, and so by surrounding instinct with terror, we prepare the soul for weakness.

  Ronald Steel

  Moving, Space, Childhood

  Ronald Steel (1980). “Walter Lippmann and the American Century. [Mit Portr.] (2. Print.)”, p.4, Transaction Publishers

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• Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.

  John Dryden

  Writing, Men, May

  John Dryden, George Gilfillan (1857). “Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.139

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• The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wisdom, Animal, Circles

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Miscellaneous Works: Letters from a citizen of the world, to his friend in the East. A familiar introduction to the study of natural history”, p.323

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