(472 quotes found)
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.”
Mae West
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”
Albert Einstein
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
Stanley Baldwin
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
George Bernard Shaw
“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”
Anatole France
“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 call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct for revenge for which no expedient is sufficiently poisonous, secret, subterranean, petty - I call it the one mortal blemish of mankind”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”
“I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.”
Woodrow T. Wilson