Instinct Quotes - Page 7

• I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

  Socrates

  Inspiration, Writing, Mean

  "Apology" by Plato (sct. 21),

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• Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

  Alexis Carrel

  Reality, Perception, Intuition

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• Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

  Deepak Chopra

  Medicine, Body, Modern

  "The Real Secret to Staying Healthy for Life (Part 1)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2012.

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• The only real valuable thing is intuition.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

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• Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Judging, Firsts, Judgment

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• My instinct about painting says, 'if you don't think about it, it's right.' As soon as you have to decide and choose, it's wrong. And the more you decide about, the more wrong it gets.

  Andy Warhol

  Thinking, Painting, Ifs

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.162, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Tis thus we heed no instincts but our own,
  Believe no evil, till the evil's done.
  [Fr., Nous n'ecoutons d'instincts que ceux qui sont les notres.
  Et ne croyons le mal que quand il est venu.]

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Believe, Evil, Done

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• It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Intuition, Natural Instinct

  Sigmund Freud, Peter (AFT) Gay, Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, W W Norton & Company Incorporated

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• I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

  Stanley Baldwin

  Trust, Sisterhood, Men

  "Brain Box". Book by Charles Phillips, p. 110, 2006.

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• Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

  William Cowper

  Mistake, Men, Intuition

  William Cowper, Henry Stebbing (1843). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc., and Adam; a Sacred Drama; from the Italian of Gio. Battista Andreini, with a Memoir of the Author”, p.183

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• Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

  Pablo Picasso

  Art, Brain, Intuition

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.

  Mae West

  Love, Art, Emotion

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Positive, Wisdom, Famous Inspirational

  "3 Inspiring Business Lessons From Billionaire Media Mogul Oprah Winfrey" by Kim Lachance Shandrow, www.foxnews.com. August 2, 2016.

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• If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Proposed Roads to Freedom”, p.109, Booklassic

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• What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Men, One Direction

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.61, Heron Dance Press

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• She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Powerful, Character, Clothes

  1869 Little Women, pt.2, ch.34.

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• A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Strong, Intuition, Instinct Intuition

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1964). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.145, Harvard University Press

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• All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct.

  Robert Ley

  Intuition, World, Hunches

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• Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lunch, House, Ashes

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.271, Modern Library

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• The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.

  Francis William Newman

  Powerful, Men, Violent

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• Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

  Carl Jung

  Historical, Conservative, Creation

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

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• But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit.

  Alexander Pope

  Volunteer, Honest, Wit

  Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.210

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• George McGovern, for all his mistakes... understands what a fantastic monument to all the best instincts of the human race this country might have been, if we could have kept it out of the hands of greedy little hustlers like Richard Nixon.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Mistake, Race

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72”, p.389, Simon and Schuster

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• Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything.

  Henry Winkler

  Voice, Natural Instinct, Knows

  www.nyfa.edu. April 16, 2018.

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• The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death.

  Sigmund Freud

  Life And Death, Life Death, Ends

  Sigmund Freud (2016). “SIGMUND FREUD Ultimate Collection: Psychoanalytic Studies, Theoretical Essays & Articles: The Interpretation of Dreams, Psychopathology of Everyday Life, Dream Psychology, Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex, Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Totem and Taboo, Leonardo da Vinci…”, p.2064, e-artnow

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