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There is no instinct like that of the heart. -- Lord Byron
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason. -- Stanley Baldwin
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's. -- Billy Wilder
I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way. -- Lionel Messi
Instinct leads, logic does but follow. -- William James
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness. -- John Sterling
How Instinct varies in the grov'ling swine. -- Alexander Pope
Instinct is the direct connection with truth. -- Laurette Taylor
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless. -- Frank Herbert
Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell. -- Mason Cooley
Instinct seeks satisfaction. Love is free of all demands. -- Tito Colliander
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves. -- Blaise Pascal
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored. -- Agatha Christie
The best decisions aren't made with your mind, but with your Instinct. -- Lionel Messi
Instinct is the most powerful thing you have, and you have to trust it. -- Erol Alkan
The spirit finds a way to be born. Instinct seeks for ways to survive. -- Toba Beta
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best. -- Alexander Pope
Instinct' usually just means our conditioning to believe this or believe that, without thinking to investigate. -- Fay Weldon
Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. -- Henri Matisse
I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series. -- Sharon Stone
Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation. -- Carl Jung
Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience. -- Jimmy Buffett
The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meg Gardiner is one of my favorite authors. She always delivers a terrific read. Phantom Instinct should go to the top of your 'to-be-read' pile. -- Karin Slaughter
Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence. -- Denis Diderot
Instinct told me it was dangerous. I could handle dangerous. Dangerous and me went back a long way. We did lunch when dangerous was in town. -- Devon Monk
It's funny, but I never knew I was hot or could be beautiful until I saw 'Basic Instinct,' and I was so shocked when I saw how pretty they made me. -- Sharon Stone
In art as in love, instinct is enough. -- Anatole France
You must trust your instinct, intuition and judgment. -- Rouben Mamoulian
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules. -- William Wordsworth
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. -- Don Marquis
A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct. -- Denis Leary
A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself. -- Marilyn Monroe
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. -- Oscar Wilde
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way. -- Florence Scovel Shinn
Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. -- Joyce Brothers
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. -- E. Michael Burke
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. -- Samuel Butler
I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess. -- Walt Disney
I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. -- Julia Roberts
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. -- Charles Lindbergh
Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. -- H. G. Wells
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide. -- Ingrid Bergman
Developing the muscles of the soul demands no competitive spirit, no killer instinct, although it may erect pain barriers that the spiritual athlete must crash through. -- Germaine Greer
Accidents on big mountains happen when people's ambitions cloud their good judgment. Good climbing is about climbing with heart and with instinct, not ambition and pride. -- Bear Grylls
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both. -- Bono
Throughout my career I have been talked out of things I wanted to do, and when I look back, I think I should have followed my instincts. -- Halle Berry
The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary. -- Francis W. Newman
The entrepreneurial instinct is in you. You can't learn it, you can't buy it, you can't put it in a bottle. It's just there and it comes out. -- Alan Sugar
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. -- Alan Alda
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. -- Carl Jung
And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension. -- Ayrton Senna
I never got a formal education. So my intellect is my common sense. I don't have anything else going for me. And my common sense opens the door to instinct. -- Jerry Lewis
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path. -- Henry Winkler
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. -- Pablo Picasso
If you're actually allowing your creative part to control your writing rather than a more commercial instinct or motive, then you'll find that all sorts of interesting things will bubble up to the surface. -- Emma Thompson
Of course no one thought of anything except of attacking the enemy. It lies in the instinct of every German to rush at the enemy wherever he meets him, particularly if he meets hostile cavalry. -- Manfred von Richthofen
If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery. -- Albert Einstein
Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man! -- Charles Eastman
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest. -- C. S. Lewis
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. -- Socrates
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. -- Richard M. Nixon
If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share. -- Virginia Woolf
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days. -- Anna Kendrick
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way. -- Barbra Streisand
Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
People are going to wonder why you're trying to be different; it's just a natural instinct. If I was to walk down the street in a kilt, then dudes would wonder why I'm doing that, they'd think I was different or gay. It's natural for people to point fingers. That's my whole reason for trying to switch things up; don't judge a book by it's cover. -- Kid Cudi
When I found Jesus Christ, I learned to be a better athlete. I didn't have to go out there and knock them out in the first round. I've learned to be patient, skillful in the ring. At the same time, I wanted to prove to other boxers that you can take off this killer instinct stuff, you can be a great athlete, a great boxer, and love your brother. -- George Foreman
Trust your first instinct. -- Kelis
Always trust your instinct. -- Soko
Hillary Clinton has no instinct. -- Donald Trump
Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway -- George Santayana
I write out of instinct. -- Jerome Weidman
It pays to trust your instinct. -- Donald Trump
I was a coward on instinct. -- William Shakespeare
instinct leads me to another flow -- Queen Latifah
Reason is the servant of instinct. -- Clarence Day
Your instinct is your divine being. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Making movies is all about instinct. -- Dino De Laurentiis
I live on my gut instinct. -- Melanie Brown
Where instinct fails, intellect must venture. -- Jim Butcher
Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. -- Henry Winkler
Sweet instinct leaps; slow reason feebly climbs. -- Edward Young
Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark. -- William Wordsworth
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Its the difference between instinct and intuition, -- Liev Schreiber
The instinct of the people is right. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My instinct is to be very controlling. -- Gary Kemp
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Style is primarily a matter of instinct. -- Bill Blass
You can trust your gut instinct. Always. -- Ana Ortega
It's a human instinct to be known. -- Natasha Leggero
Reason is a passion; an instinct, a drive. -- Bette Howland
Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct! -- Theodore Sturgeon
I have an instinct for survival, for self-preservation. -- Julian Barnes
Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. -- Blaise Pascal
Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct. -- Muhammad Iqbal
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. -- Max Eastman
Your instinct is your true god. Follow it. -- Doug Stanhope
Experience is a question of instinct about life. -- Oscar Wilde
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer ... -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I work on instinct. It's my best adviser. -- Princess Diana
Writing is above all a question of instinct. -- Anthony Powell
A person born with an instinct for poverty. -- Elbert Hubbard
Women's total instinct for gambling is satisfied by marriage -- Gloria Steinem
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature. -- William James
Neither instinct nor style ..can be bought or taught. -- Robert Evans
Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. -- Clarence Darrow
Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind. -- Maria Montessori
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. -- Robert Ley
To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature. -- Max Beerbohm
What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct. -- Ovid
Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally. -- Isabelle Adjani
I prepare to the point where instinct take over... -- Stephen Curry
I don't know if you can articulate an instinct. -- Kristen Wiig
I think most people have a natural instinct to rebel. -- Elvis Presley
Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct. -- Barbara Corcoran

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