(467 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
“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
“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
“Learn to let your intuition—gut instinct—tell you when the food, the relationship, the job isn’t good for you (and conversely, when what you’re doing is just right).”
Oprah Winfrey
“Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
Anais Nin
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