Quotes about Instinct
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
- Marianne Williamson
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
- Henry David Thoreau
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
- Marquis de Sade
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
- John Donne
The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter-he's got to just know.
- Will Rogers
Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?
- William Golding
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
- Joel Osteen
My soul was always so full of aspirations, that a God was a necessity to me. I was like a bird with an instinct of migration upon me, and a country to migrate to was as essential as it is to the bird.
- Hannah Whitall Smith
King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.
- Virginia Woolf
Just listen to your body, eat in silence and see what feels good and you will spontaneously choose the foods that are beneficial to you.
- Deepak Chopra
Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.
- Thomas Merton