Instincts Quotes - Page 2

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

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

George Santayana

Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

When a man begins to reason he ceases to feel.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

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.

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

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.

Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth of a thing is the feel of it not the think of it.

Stanley Kubrick

Spend time every day listening to what your muse is trying to tell you.

Saint Bartholomew

When I do things without any explanation but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

Federico Fellini

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

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

I never believe facts Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.

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

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

You cannot know what you cannot feel.

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

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

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

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

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

By learning to contact listen to and act on our intuition we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Anne Wilson Schaef

Trust your gut.

Barbara Walters

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

Intuition ... appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Holmes

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand

Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance you feel a loss of energy loss of power a sense of spiritual deadness.

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.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Madame de Girardin

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

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

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

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.

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

We each need to let our intuition guide us and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

I feel there are two people inside of 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.

I give myself sometimes admirable advice but I am incapable of taking it.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

Alfred North Whitehead

I'm the foe of moderation the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right."

Tallulah Bankhead

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Flannery O'Connor

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

Eva Peron

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Mary Caroline Richards

The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe.

Eleanor Roosevelt

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

Katharine Butler Hathaway

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