Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. Votes: 4
Billy WilderWhether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. Votes: 3
Alexander PopeInstinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. Votes: 3
Friedrich NietzscheInstinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. Votes: 3
Henri MatisseIntuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. Votes: 2
Florence Scovel ShinnWomen have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. Votes: 2
Oscar WildeTrust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Votes: 2
Joyce BrothersGood instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. Votes: 2
E. Michael BurkeTo live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. Votes: 2
Samuel ButlerI don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. Votes: 2
Walt DisneyLovers have an ineffable instinct which detects the presence of rivals. Votes: 0
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and BulwerBoxing brings out my aggressive instinct, not necessarily a killer instinct. Votes: 0
Sugar Ray LeonardThe herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers. Votes: 0
Edgar FiedlerA personal injustice is stronger motivation than any instinct for philanthropy. Votes: 0
John IrvingThe herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.. Votes: 0
Edgar FiedlerWhen reason and instinct are reconciled, there will be no higher appeal. Votes: 0
Jean-Philippe RameauBecause trying to see all sides, such an instinct is particularly Jewish. Votes: 0
Elizabeth WurtzelThe religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy. Votes: 0
Hugh Reginald HaweisWhen publicly censured our first instinct is to make everybody a codefendant. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego. Votes: 0
Chogyam TrungpaEven in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived. Votes: 0
Bertrand RussellIt's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach. Votes: 0
Van MorrisonMaternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. Votes: 0
Charlotte Perkins GilmanI rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics. Votes: 0
Richard BransonI gravitated to acting out of a mixture of instinct, naivete and opportunity. Votes: 0
Jeffrey CombsI think that instinct, that storytelling instinct, rescued me most of my life. Votes: 0
Armistead MaupinArtist by nature, actor by instinct, poet by accident, and vagabond by choice. Votes: 0
Don BlandingIn any situation, listen and follow the first instinct, the sacred inner voice. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaThe actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct. Votes: 0
Antonin ArtaudA man's jealousy is a social institution; a woman's prostitution is an instinct. Votes: 0
Karl KrausGangbanging is a survival instinct, regardless of how anybody tries to paint it. Votes: 0
Nipsey HussleThe soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. Votes: 0
Henry Theodore TuckermanThat instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneLet your *need* guide you behavior. *Supress* your instinct to lead... Pursue Rabbit! Votes: 0
Cheshire CatTheater people work by instinct. I've never known a really calculated artistic decision. Votes: 0
John GoodwinI don't think about making sexy clothes. It's just my instinct to make them. Votes: 0
Donatella VersaceLike hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. Votes: 0
Deepak ChopraNature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity. Votes: 0
Michel de MontaigneThis heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee! Votes: 0
Thomas MooreGreat souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0
Elizabeth GeorgeGreat souls by instinct to each other turn, demand alliance, and in friendship burn. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonFight any instinct to be humorless, for humorlessness is the worst of all absurdities. Votes: 0
Jean CocteauPhysical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage. Votes: 0
Wendell PhillipsConflict is the alchemical soup that transforms raw emotion and instinct into pure gold. Votes: 0
Harville HendrixThere is generally not any conscious thought; it's all instinct, and practice takes over. Votes: 0
Cindy NelsonBanks have a strong self-preservation instinct and are quick to adapt to new regulations. Votes: 0
Herve FalcianiMan's strongest instinct is not sex or self-preservation. it's to level the playing field. Votes: 0
Ron BrackinThey call it the drowning instinct. It's when drowning doesn't look like drowning. (pg. 241) Votes: 0
Ilsa J. BickLike every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinSometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic. Votes: 0
Naveen Jain... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling. Votes: 0
Samuel FlormanConformity"the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. Votes: 0
Mark TwainIt is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life. Votes: 0
Katharine Butler HathawayIf every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right. Votes: 0
Jerry SeinfeldThere is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultEach of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct Votes: 0
Narendra ModiYou just go with your gut instinct, because your gut is smarter than your heart. Votes: 0
Gerard WayWhen anything is wrong with your child, your first instinct is to make it better. Votes: 0
Didi ConnA good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses. Votes: 0
Donna MurphyTo insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality. Votes: 0
Guillaume ApollinaireAlthough I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination. Votes: 0
Albert Einsteindoubt is a skill. credulity ,by contrast, appears to be something very like an instinct Votes: 0
Kathryn SchulzLife is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzscheAll money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury. Votes: 0
Prince PhilipLove of beauty is really only the sex instinct, which nothing but complete union satisfies. Votes: 0
John GalsworthyConscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct. Votes: 0
Samuel SmilesI think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive. Votes: 0
Julie WaltersThe strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. Votes: 0
Kenneth GrahameFor a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. Votes: 0
Carl SaganAppetite, n. An instinct thoughtfully implanted by Providence as a solution to the labor question. Votes: 0
Ambrose BierceThe creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness. Votes: 0
Francis BaconMy mum says, 'Go with your first instinct,' but this can lead to impulse buying! Votes: 0
Lindsay LohanArt and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do. Votes: 0
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich SchlegelLife is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerWrite out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. Votes: 0
Louis UntermeyerWhen the press began asking me for interviews, I freaked out. My instinct is to hide. Votes: 0
Shonda RhimesYou need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct. Votes: 0
Chris HughesWe surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know. Votes: 0
Arthur Conan DoyleHope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. Votes: 0
Graham GreeneWhy should a manufacturer bet his money, perhaps the future of his company, on your instinct? Votes: 0
David OgilvyThe hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. Votes: 0
Max BeerbohmThe brown monkey's instinct to kill is correct; such men are dangerous to all monkey customs. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinOur aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. Votes: 0
Robert WinstonYour final goal is to convert your athletic swing to pure instinct rather than conscious thought. Votes: 0
David Leadbetter'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool. Votes: 0
Oscar IsaacSeems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. Votes: 0
Robert A. HeinleinThe instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. Votes: 0
Lofty WisemanAn instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge. Votes: 0
Sir William Hamilton, 9th BaronetGuitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. Votes: 0
St. VincentBy instinct and tradition, I don't like the thing. I like to look someone in the eye. Votes: 0
Walter F. MondaleYou have yourself and your instinct - there isn't anything else at the end of the day. Votes: 0
Nitin SawhneyFashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct. Votes: 0
Edith HeadIntuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not. Votes: 0
Oscar WildeI had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke. Votes: 0
Jory JohnCourage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! Votes: 0
D.C. AkersOur cultural instinct is to wait to get pickedNo one is going to pick you. Pick yourself. Votes: 0
Seth GodinYet otters have not been hunters in water long enough for the habit to become an instinct. Votes: 0
Henry WilliamsonBy all means listen to other people's advice, but when in doubt go with your gut instinct. Votes: 0
Steve PavlinaI have a good instinct for what's real and what's not. I don't have to second-guess myself. Votes: 0
Ben AffleckNotes are tricky in an audition, because I find, more often than not, my instinct is right. Votes: 0
Lance ReddickI've always believed that acting is instinct to start with; you either have it or you don't. Votes: 0
Claudette ColbertIt is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. Votes: 0
James Russell LowellI guess I just don't have the killer instinct that I think makes a great political cartoonist. Votes: 0
Bill WattersonThe combative instinct is a savage prompting by which one man's good is found in another's evil. Votes: 0
George SantayanaJazz today, as always in the past, is a matter of thoughtful creation, not mere unaided instinct. Votes: 0
Duke EllingtonThe desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. Votes: 0
Gerald M. LoebOne must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion. Votes: 0
Gertrude SteinI suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts. Votes: 0
Phoebe Waller-BridgeLet men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. Votes: 0
SophoclesDo you love your idea? Does it feel right on instinct? Are you willing to bleed for it? Votes: 0
Steven PressfieldTenderness is a deeper instinct than seduction, which is why it is so hard to give up hope. Votes: 0
Michel HouellebecqI definitely go on gut instinct but it has always had the back up of research and information. Votes: 0
Richard BransonIf obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought. Votes: 0
Napoleon BonaparteCreativity to me is the life force that is in us. Itâs an animalistic instinct for survival. Votes: 0
Elie TahariI have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival. Votes: 0
Karl LagerfeldAlmost everyone's instinct is to be overconfident and read way too much into a hot or cold streak. Votes: 0
Nate SilverIt has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamWhen teaching children with autism we must be quick to adapt, follow our instinct and go off plan. Votes: 0
Adele DevineMy first instinct is to push you until you break just to see how hard I have to press. Votes: 0
Veronica RothI think there is a human instinct to tell stories, no matter who you are or where you live. Votes: 0
Sarah KayI have always had an instinct for doing new things. Call it good or bad, I love to experiment. Votes: 0
Ravi ShankarI have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands. Votes: 0
Brian WilsonI am best described as just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct. Votes: 0
Clarence BirdseyeThere is within us a moral instinct which forbids us to rejoice at the death of even an enemy. Votes: 0
Henryk SienkiewiczWhat is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. Votes: 0
Finley Peter DunneWe lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct. Votes: 0
Marion CotillardI don't really have a system or set of principles. It's kind of common sense mixed up with instinct. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardI go by the gut. I might not appear to have any talent but I've got plenty of gut instinct. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiJanice used to say that instinct was reason in a hurry; I was not so sure about the reason part. Votes: 0
Anne FortierMusic is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds. Votes: 0
OuidaFear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive. Votes: 0
Theodore SturgeonA man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. Votes: 4 Friedrich Nietzsche
Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. Votes: 3 Lemn Sissay
If you're like most members of the Baby Boom generation, you decided somewhere along the line, probably after about four margaritas, to have children. This was inevitable. Mother Nature, in her infinite wisdom, has instilled within each of us a powerful biological instinct to reproduce; this is her way of assuring that the human race, come what may, will never have any disposable income. Votes: 3 Dave Barry
Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct. Votes: 3 Siri Hustvedt
Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody. Votes: 1 Bjork
It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. Votes: 4 Stone Gossard
Feminism is a political mistake. Feminism is a mistake made by women's intellect, a mistake which her instinct will recognize. Votes: 3 Valentine de Saint-Point
The more children see of violence, the more numb they are to the deadly consequences of violence. Now, video games like 'Mortal Kombat,' 'Killer Instinct,' and 'Doom,' the very game played obsessively by the two young men who ended so many lives in Littleton, make our children more active participants in simulated violence. Votes: 3 William J. Clinton
Patriotism is a tricky way that neutralizes the life instinct -- Eros; you give your life as a sacrifice for others who never share even their wealth with you. The irony is that even their wealth seems to be more valuable for them than your life Votes: 3 Elmar Hussein
I have always had strong maternal instincts. Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels' tracks behind me in the snow. Votes: 2 Agnetha Faltskog
That survival instinct, that will to live, that need to get back to life again, is more powerful than any consideration of taste, decency, politeness, manners, civility. Anything. It's such a powerful force. Votes: 5 Danny Boyle