Top Instinct Quotes

My body's been touched a thousand or more times but I am craving something so much deeper than that ~ I desire to be felt, right down to the core of my soul and the corners of my heart. That's what lo...

He took the woman from her bed, pretending not to notice the question posed in his mind: Why do you always experiment on women? He didn't care to admit that the inference had any validity. She just ha...

Instinct Definition

(a.) Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life.

(a.) Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished.

(a.) Specif., the natural, unreasoning, impulse by which an animal is guided to the performance of any action, without of improvement in the method.

(a.) A natural aptitude or knack; a predilection; as, an instinct for order; to be modest by instinct.

(v. t.) To impress, as an animating power, or instinct.

If my 'mind' don't mind, I don't mind.

Whats the difference between a king and his horse?I dont mean some kiddy shit like one has 4 legs and the other has 2, or ones a person and ones an animal. If their form, ability, and power is exactly...

There was something about the story she told us...that didn't seem right to him. He didn't buy the idea they'd been lovers. He reckoned it was something else. It's the sort of thing he used to pick up...

Nature can be cruel. Predators are everywhere. Those who don't need to be protected from outside forces often need to be protected from themselves. In society, women are referred to as "the fairer sex...

He who discovers the light, discovers life. He who discovers the dark, discovers death, Neither are wrong and neither are right; your perception is what will guide your path. Our minds are our tools,...

Instinct of love toward an object demands a mastery to obtain it, and if a person feels they can't control the object or feel threatened by it, they act negatively toward it.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

The heart is seldom wiser than the mind, but when it is, listen to it.

I try to forget you more often than not but somehow my mind wanders to places my heart feels are oh so very true.

We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

They'll come a time - in fact many times - when all the tools & techniques will fail you or desert you. Then - at last - is the moment to trust, use & follow your heart

for to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."Separation anxiety. International Journal of Psycho-Analy...

WHAT ARE THE CONSEQUENCES when we go against our instincts? What are the consequences of not speaking out? What are the consequences of guilt, shame, and doubt?

You know you love something if you're willing to die for it, and you know it means nothing if you walk away from that which is dying.

You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.

The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

Your intuition won't fail you, the quest dear; is to silence your mind so you can feel your way home.