Quotes about Instincts
Sometimes you have to marinate instead of making a quick decision. I appreciate my instincts, but my instincts can be dead wrong. Circumspection can give you time.
- Holly Hunter
Libido, or concupiscence, a tending toward certain things in defiance of rational restraint.
- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.
- Samuel Johnson
We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.
- Carl Jung
When you know you have unconditional love, there is no point in rebellion and no need to fear failure. I was free to follow my instincts, enjoy my life, and love my parents as much as they loved me.
- George W. Bush
Instincts under pressure crush the carbon of conformity and create diamonds. Each new season of life offers to train us for the next season if we pay attention and adapt.
- Bishop TD Jakes
If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?
- Dennis Prager
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
- James Faust
Once you have confidence in your instincts, you must never allow other people's refusal to believe, or their data to refute, what you instinctively know is true.
- Bishop TD Jakes
When there's no turning back, your instincts will lead you forward.
- Bishop TD Jakes
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts." -The Decoration of Houses
- Edith Wharton
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke