(488 quotes found)
“I was able to use my instinct, the goal was a purely instinctive one. I enjoyed myself in this match.”
Thierry Henry
“Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.”
Albert Einstein
“My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.”
“Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.”
“He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered. (Proverbs 28:26)”
Bible
“The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Such a man as instinctively feeds on pure ambrosia and leaves alone the indigestible in things.”
“The great lie about immortality destroys every kind of reason, every kind of naturalness in the instincts.”
“I was built for this. I got those survival instincts. I'm like Robinson Crusoe, a neighborhood MacGyver.”
Clarence Rodriguez
“Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.”
George Bernard Shaw
