62 Best Instinct Quotes And Sayings

Published on November 20, 2016 , under Quotes

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Instinct is an innate, typically fixed pattern of behaviour in animals in response to certain stimuli.

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

2. Fear is not an instinct. Fear is learned after pain. Curiosity and awareness are instincts, and will protect much better than fear, while still allowing for trust, and the joyful experiences that fear would only push away.
Doe Zantamata

3. Give yourself permission to immediately walk away from anything that gives you bad vibes. There is no need to explain or make sense of it. Just trust the little inner voice when it talks to you.
Anonymous

4. I felt as though I had no choice in what I was doing. I was following a mother's instinct to try and save her child.
Elizabeth Glaser

5. Instinct is a marvelous thing,” mused Poirot. “It can neither be explained nor ignored. The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Agatha Christie

6. Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan

7. Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Oscar Wilde

8. fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand Russell

9. Gut instinct is your greatest critic listen to it.
Anonymous

10. I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
Anais Nin

11. The animal instinct is one the best human features
Anonymous

12. Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

13. Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw

14. It is a simple truth that the human mind can face better the most oppressive government, the most rigid restrictions, than the awful prospect of a lawless, frontierless world. Freedom is a dangerous intoxicant and very few people can tolerate it in any quantity; it brings out the old raiding, oppressing, murderous instincts; the rage for revenge, for power, the lust for bloodshed. The longing for freedom takes the form of crushing the enemy- there is always the enemy!- into the earth; and where and who is the enemy if there is no visible establishment to attack, to destroy with blood and fire? Remember all that oratory when freedom is threatened again. Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty
Katherine Anne Porter

15. Trust your gut instinct over spreadsheets. There are too many variables in the real world that you simply can’t put into a spreadsheet. Spreadsheets spit out results from your inexact assumptions and give you a false sense of security. In most cases, your heart and gut are still your best guide.
Naveen Jain

16. Each animal, By natural instinct taught, spares his own kind, But man, the tyrant man! revels at large, Freebooter unrestrain’d, destroys at will The whole creation; men and beasts his prey; These for his pleasure, for his glory those
William Somervile

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

18. The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

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

20. To live is like to love – all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler

21. I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.
Princess Diana

22. My gut instinct told me that they kind of had something under their hat and they were going to make a good announcement (Wednesday). I was surprised it was called off. … As a fan, it’s disappointing. … I love the game, love to watch it, especially this time (of year because) it’s getting close to March, April, playoffs start. And there will be nothing to watch on TV.
Mike Weir

23. Now that I’m losing some, I can see how tough I was – the killer instinct, the single-mindedness, playing like a machine. Boy, that’s what made me a champion.
Chris Evert

24. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.
Blaise Pascal

25. Never apologize for trusting your intuition – your brain can play tricks, your heart can blind, but your gut is always right.
Rachel Wolchin

26. If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.
Bertrand Russel

27. Trust your instincts. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder

28. I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin

29. Trust your instincts. If it feels right then it must be. Everything can deceive but your conscience will always keep it real with you
Anonymous

30. Never discredit your gut instinct. You are not paranoid. Your body can pick up on bad vibrations. If something deep inside of you says something is not right about a person or situation, trust it.
Anonymous

31. Life is full of toil, sacrifice, and pain, and from the time we stop growing, we know that we’ve begun dying. We watch helplessly as year by year, our bodies age and fail, while our survival instincts compel us to keep on going-which means living with the terrifying knowledge that ultimately death is inescapable.
Jim Butcher