Instinct Quotes - Page 6

• The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

  Charles Darwin

  Inspirational, Essence, Intuition

  Charles Darwin (2016). “The Descent of Man: the Evolution”, p.113, VM eBooks

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• Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.

  Eileen Caddy

  Positive, Inspiration, Intuition

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• A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

  Frank Capra

  Positive Thinking, Creativity, Creative

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

  Jean Cocteau

  Truth, Honor, Intuition

  "Moments of Clarity". Book by Thomas L. Jackson, March 31, 2002.

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Garden, Environment

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• Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Civilization, Intuition, Beast

  Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Nature, Royal, Geese

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Professor At The Breakfast Table”, p.240, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  "Edgewalkers: People and Organizations That Take Risks, Build Bridges, and". Book by Judi Neal, p. 163, October 30, 2006.

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• When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

  Angelina Jolie

  Trust, Intuition, Trouble

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• Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yield, Intuition, Elements

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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• Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Meat Eating

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". TV Special, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Feelings, Intuition, Criticism

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leopold Mozart (1966). “The Letters of Mozart and His Family”

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• A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Leadership, Men, Thinking

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1962). “Jawaharlal Nehru, an Autobiography: With Musings on Recent Events in India”

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• Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Trust

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.9, Bantam

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• Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, War, People

  C. S. LEWIS (1947). “THE ABOLITION OF MAN”

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• Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

  Don Marquis

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• Truly successful decision-making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Inspirational, Success, Thinking

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Eye, Analysis, Months

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.

  William Wordsworth

  Strong, Intuition, Instinct Intuition

  William Wordsworth (1838). “The Sonnets of William Wordsworth: Collected in One Volume, with a Few Additional Ones, Now First Published”, p.157

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• Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

  Max Eastman

  Laughter, Pain, Humor

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• Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.

  Daisy Whitney

  Sometimes

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• 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

  Actors, Hitting, Used

  "Daniel Radcliffe On Ditching Harry And Becoming A Man". Interview with Anne Brodie, www.askmen.com.

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• I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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

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• Intuition makes much of it; I mean by this the faculty of seeing a connection between things that in appearance are completely different; it does not fail to lead us astray quite often.

  Andre Weil

  Mean, Intuition, Connections

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• The Christian's instinct of trust and worship are stimulated very powerfully by knowledge of the greatness of God.

  J. I. Packer

  Christian, Greatness, Worship

  J. I. Packer (1973). “Knowing God”, Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press

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