Instinct Quotes - Page 6

One puzzling thing about men -- they allow their sex instinct to drive them to where their intelligence never would take them.

When reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

I allow my intuition to lead my path.

Human beings have an instinct for freedom.

Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.

I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

It turns out that our intuition is a greater genius than we are.

I always believe your instinct is the most correct instinct.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Logotherapy . . . considers man as a being whose main concern consists in fulfilling a meaning and in actualizing values, rather than in the mere gratification and satisfaction of drives and instincts.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

Somewhere in the archives of crudest instinct is recorded the truth that it is better to be endangered and free than captive and comfortable.

I've always kind of done exactly what my instincts said.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

The instinct of the people is right.

It's a human instinct to be known.