Instincts Quotes - Page 3

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

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.

Ideas pull the trigger but instinct loads the gun.

God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.

Have the courage to follow your heart.

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

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.

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

You might be an introvert if you were ready to go home before you left the house.

Saul was going to kill Anansi.They both knew it. Saul was going to kill Anansi and Loplop and King Rat, and Saul was going to die, all in an effort to prove that he was not his rat-father's son.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

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

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.

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

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

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

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

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

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

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

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

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

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.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves and fibers and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

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

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 destruction of the ecosystem or not. Holding ourselves in check by placing a brake upon the human propensity to strike out in instinctual behavior is a distinct human quality. Restraint from instant gratification of strong impulses represents a unique human behavior trait. By intentionally refraining from committing an instinctual action, humankind asserts its sovereignty from its biological constitution. Unbound from the limitations of its biological nature, a person can employ the mind to devise alternative behavioral choices and the results of numerous behavioral choices culminate to provide a person with a sophisticated definition of the self.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

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.

At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real hold the objects of the natural world amid which we live can gain on our hearts and minds? We go to Nature for comfort in trouble, and sympathy in joy, only in books. Admiration of those beauties of the inanimate world, which modern poetry so largely and so eloquently describes, is not, even in the best of us, one of the original instincts of our nature.

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.

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

Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.

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

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

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

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.

She swore this time around she'd listen to her instincts, and right now they told her to be careful. She'd had to fight hard for everything she had, and risking everything for a little fun didn't seem wise.

Falling in love is one of the activities forbidden that tiresome person the consistently reasonable man.

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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one.

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

Stop opposing the truths.The truth is truth no matter how you take it. It is not going to be changed for your inconvenience.

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

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

Trust your gut.

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

Calculation never made a hero.