(488 quotes found)
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love isn't an emotion or an instinct--it's an art.”
Mae West
“I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.”
Stanley Baldwin
“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
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”
Albert Einstein
“Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out.”
Michael Burke
“Instinct is untaught ability”
Alexander Bain
“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