Instinct Quotes

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.

Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Low budgets force you to be more creative. Sometimes, with too much money, time and equipment, you can over-think. My way, you can use your gut instinct.

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.

In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction.

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

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

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.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then.

Literature... is the union of suffering with the instinct for form.

Nobody taught Picasso how to paint - he learned for himself. And nobody can teach you to be a producer. You can learn the mechanics, but you can't learn what's right about a script or a director or an actor. That comes from instinct and intuition. It comes from inside you.

Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive.

My instinct as a philosopher is that we are effectively approaching a multicentric world, which means we need to ask new, and for the traditional left, unpleasant questions.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

For me, that's natural. The instinct to score comes naturally and if you have it, you've got to go to it.

I don't know if you can articulate an instinct.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.