Quotes about instincts

Awestruck, Flora stared at the dishevelled sisters with their blazing faces and radiant ragged wings, who smelled of no kin but the wild high air.

Follow your heart.

In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct.Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out.

A ‘biomass’ man lives by his instincts

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

The continuation of man’s life is more attributable to his fear of death than it is to his desire to live. As a matter of fact, in countless cases, it is attributable to only the former.

The following proposition seems to me in a high degree probable—namely, that any animal whatever, endowed with well-marked social instincts, the parental and filial affections being here included, would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience, as soon as its intellectual powers had become as well, or nearly as well developed, as in man. For, firstly, the social instincts lead an animal to take pleasure in the society of its fellows, to feel a certain amount of sympathy with them, and to p

Have the courage to follow your heart.

God reveals future events through dreams, vision and the sacred voice.

See, I was never a guy who had a whole heap of friends to belong to. Besides Greg Fienni, I never really had friends. I kind of stayed on my own. I hated it, but I was proud of it too. Cameron Wolfe needed no one. He didn't need to be amongst a pack. Not all of us roam like that. No, all he needed was his instincts. All he needed was himself.

Morals are nothing but a civilized society’s attempt to tame some beast called man.

It was like he was a caveman grunting, "You woman. Me man. Let’s make babies together.

People exercise the freedom to present themselves from a vast array of precepts. The modern human mind can engage in reflective thought and selectively determine how to organize the elements of perception. We can consciously elect to depart from stereotypical behavior and transcend the heretofore-established biological behavioral preferences. People can elect to hold prejudices or not, can make rational or irrational decisions to engage in war or not, and can take deliberate steps to arrest dest

Inner voice is the divine voice.

There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts!

You have permission to walk away from anything that doesn't feel right. Trust your instincts and listen to your inner-voice — it's trying to protect you.

Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts.

Trust your instincts.

It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks.

I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart..

I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive then I believe you are better off not doing it. A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.

It's the ancient instinct: In times of great danger, be wary of strangers. Trust no one outside your circle. But there's another instinct, far older, as old as life itself, nearly impossible for the human mind to override: Protect the young at all costs. Preserve the future." - Vosch

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.

Freedom is the decision to live and die, doing what you love.

What?”Lucien laughed. “Yes—all those female faeries around you were females for Tamlin to pick. It’s an honor to be chosen, but it’s his instincts that select her.”“But you were there—and other male faeries.” My face burned so hot that I began sweating. That was why those three horrible faeries had been there—and they’d thought that just by my presence, I was happy to comply with their plans.“Ah.” Lucien chuckled. “Well, Tam’s not the only one who gets to perform the rite tonight. Once he makes

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

The opinions of others are their perceptions. Define your life!

I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts.

Trust your instincts. Follow your heart.

Don’t believe negative voices. Listen to the divine-instinct of awaken soul.

Sometimes you just have to trust your instincts it may be all you have to trust.

Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

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.

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.

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."

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

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

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

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.

Instinct is untaught ability.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Trust your gut.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

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

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

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

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

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

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.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Calculation never made a hero.

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

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.

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.

Systems die instincts remain.

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.

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.