Instincts Quotes

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

Trust your instincts. Follow your heart.

Once in a while, he worries, but about what? Like the scattered clouds that drift over farmland in the afternoon, that sort of anxiety is what, ultimately?

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

A ‘biomass’ man lives by his instincts

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.

When love is not madness it is not love.

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

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

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

Passion and prejudice govern the world only under the name of reason.

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

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

Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

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

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

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

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

Instinct is untaught ability.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.

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

I follow my heart for I can trust it.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

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

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

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

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts which He also gave us.

Inner voice is the divine voice.

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.

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