Quotes About Instinct

All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be-crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Trust your gut.

It is our business to go as we are impelled.

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Everyone was searching for a formula for survival... and the only formula that worked was no formula. Instinct ... that's all you had to go on.

We each need to let our intuition guide us, and then be willing to follow that guidance directly and fearlessly.

When I do things without any explanation, but just with spontaneity ... I can be sure that I am right.

Trust your hunches. ... Hunches are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level. Warning! Do not confuse your hunches with wishful thinking. This is the road to disaster.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry, documented deductions of the brain.

Decisions, particularly important ones, have always made me sleepy, perhaps because I know that I will have to make them by instinct, and thinking things out is only what other people tell me I should do.

Systems die; instincts remain.

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.