Top Instinct Quotes

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

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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.

The longer you resist the calling of your soul the harder it is to find your way back. Intuition isn't instilled in us for nothing, it's the movement inside us that we must listen to if we want the vo...

To run with the wolf was to run in the shadows, the dark ray of life, survival and instinct. A fierceness that was both proud and lonely, a tearing, a howling, a hunger and thirst. Blessed are they wh...

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

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

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

Be true to what you feel in your heart.

Great moments are full of naked vulnerability, words merely reflect a primal or instinctual footprints that leaves trails of dust for those brave enough to follow

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

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

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

Most people are not prepared to have their minds changed, he said. And I think they know in their hearts that other people are just the same, and one of the reasons people become angry when they argue...

My instinct is saying its not over, but your adamant it is, what do I trust?

Don't stand unmoving outside the door of a crying baby whose only desire is to touch you. Go to your baby. Go to your baby a million times. Demonstrate that people can be trusted, that the environment...

Your voice is yours, how dare you let another speak for you.Your heart is yours, how dare you give it away, so freely to another you hardly know. Your soul is yours, how dare you ignore its instinctua...

What saves us from succumbing to utter meaninglessness is not reason but instinct.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

There is no instinct like that of the heart.