Quotes by American Authors - Page 143

It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny.
George Washington
I write out of instinct.
Jerome Weidman
Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.
Mario Cuomo
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins
Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.
Robert Henri
Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
Margaret A. Ribble
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Nikki Giovanni
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
Brenda Ueland
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
Randolph Bourne
If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
Cher
The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.
William James
Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.
Hubert H. Humphrey
In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.
Fulton Oursler
There are no rules. Just follow your heart.
Robin Williams
It is wisdom to believe the heart.
George Santayana
Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.
Gerald Jampolsky
Command by instinct is swifter subtler deeper more accurate more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.
Michael Novak
The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.
Michael Burke
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.
George Santayana
Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.
Don Marquis
Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.
William James
I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.
Hamilton Wright Mabie
Systems die instincts remain.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.
Kahlil Gibran
We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.
James Ramsey Ullman
A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.
Llewelyn Powers
The shrewd guess the fertile hypothesis the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.
Jerome S. Bruner
Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
William James
Decisions particularly important ones have always made me sleepy perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.
Lillian Hellman
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey
Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.
Emily Blackwell
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
John Sterling
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
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
Marya Mannes
Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
Spontaneity is the quality of being able to do something just because you feel like it at the moment of trusting your instincts of taking yourself by surprise and snatching from the clutches of your well-organized routine a bit of unscheduled pleasure.
Richard Iannelli
The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.
Stanley Kubrick
Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.
Lydia M. Child
If you do not express your own original ideas if you do not listen to your own being you will have betrayed yourself.
Rollo May
Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself and you begin to follow your own instincts-only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied and when you are other people tend to be satisfied by what you do.
Raquel Welch
The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.
Herb Goldberg
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
We each need to let our intuition guide us and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.
Shakti Gawain
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
George E. Woodberry
I feel there are two people inside me-me and my intuition. If I go against her she'll screw me every time and if I follow her we get along quite nicely.
Kim Basinger
Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.
Carolyn Kenmore
If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct your life will be safe expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.
Katharine Butler Hathaway
Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit it is worse than a chance lost it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.
William James
Every time you don't follow your inner guidance you feel a loss of energy loss of power a sense of spiritual deadness.
Shakti Gawain
I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
Trust your gut.
Barbara Walters
Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.
Anne Wilson Schaef