Love Quotes and Sayings

Here are some quote on Instinct. We earlier did some intuition quotes too.

“It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.”
~James Russell Lowell

“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
~ Bertrand Russell

“A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story.”
~Lynn Abbey

“How instinct varies in the grov’lling swine, Compar’d, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! ‘Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep’rate, yet forever near!”
~Alexander Pope

“What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change.”
~H. G. Wells

My favorite instinct quote, “Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.”
~ Henri Matisse

“The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.”
~Albert Einstein

“A good artist lets his intuition lead him wherever it wants.”
~Lao-Tzu

“Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.”
~Oprah Winfrey

“The only real valuable thing is intuition.”
~Albert Einstein

“With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper”
~ Thorstein Veblen

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules.”
~ William Wordsworth

“There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.”
~Malcolm Gladwell – This is about the latest Instinct quote..

“Truly successful decision making relies on a balance between deliberate and instinctive thinking.”
~Malcolm Gladwell

Another new Instinct quote:
I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.
~Richard Branson

Very old one:
“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

“You do what’s in your gut- if you’ve been doing it long enough, what’s in your gut will be appropriate.”
~ Anderson Cooper

“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

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