Instincts Quotes

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

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

Cherish your emotions and never undervalue them.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better and do they not develop us more than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

Vincent van Gogh

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

We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

Luigi Pirandello

I write out of instinct.

Just be what you are and speak from your guts and heart-it's all a man has.

Hubert H. Humphrey

When love is not madness it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

To live is like to love: all reason is against it and all healthy instinct is for it.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful he must obey his impulse.

What you intuitively desire that is possible to you.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.

Sir Arthur Eddington

If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.

Cher

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

Randolph Bourne

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice love passion.

Nadia Boulanger

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Søren Kierkegaard

Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

François de La Rochefoucauld

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

Dr. Joyce Brothers

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.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.

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

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

Anonymous

It is the heart which experiences God not the reason.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

The mind can assert anything and pretend it has proved it. My beliefs I test on my body on my intuitional consciousness and when I get a response there then I accept.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

Gerald Jampolsky

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the results of sudden impulses and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

George Santayana

I follow my heart for I can trust it.

J. C. F. von Schiller

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

François de La Rochefoucauld

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

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.

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

Impulse without reason is not enough and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

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

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

Llewelyn Powers

Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Cardinal Newman

We are so clothed in rationalization and dissemblance that we can recognize but dimly the deep primal impulses that motivate us.

James Ramsey Ullman

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Reason ruling alone is a force confining and passion unattended is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions.

Systems die instincts remain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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