Quotes About Innate

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

And then it was all so simple and natural. As if they both knew what to do without thinking-as if they'd always known what to do.

Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that. Love is the path through permissiveness to discipline: and through discipline, only too often, to betrayal of self.

She had taken him for granted, she thought with surprise and shame, watching the flickering candlelight. She had assumed his kindness was so natural and so innate, she had never asked herself whether it cost him any effort. Any effort to stand between Will and the world, protecting each of them from the other. Any effort to accept the loss of his family with equanimity. Any effort to remain cheerful and calm in the face of his own dying.

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Songwriting cannot be taught; it is a God-given gift from the womb.

Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing why. I felt a hole in my heart shaped like a dark door I needed to guard.

Without our stressful thoughts, we would be kinder, more relaxed, more at peace, lighter emotionally, and more in tune with our innate wisdom and the natural flow of life.

Bucky solía decir que todos los niños nacen genios y que se pasan los seis primeros años de vida perdiendo su genialidad.

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

You're always the person you were when you were born

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.

You can't manufacture passion or "motivate" people to feel passionate. You can only discover what ignites your passion and the passions of those around you.

Like too many men, Trahearne and I didn't know how to deal with a woman like [the girl], caught as we were between our own random lusts and a desire for faithful women so primitive and fierce that it must have been innate, atavistic, as uncontrollable as a bodily function. That was when I stopped being angry at the old man.

Había en él toda la majestuosidad, sencilla y grande a la voz, de una criatura primitiva, no muy alterada por la corrupción que a menudo acompaña a las costumbres civilizadas, pero que, como don natural, posee los dotes mejores de un ser humano.

True goodness springs from a man's own heart. All men are born good.

Talent is that which is in a man's power; genius is that in whose power a man is.

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Talents give a man a superiority far more agreeable than that which proceeds from riches, birth, or employments, which are all external. Talents constitute our very essence.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

Children's minds need not innately embody language structures, if languages embody the predispositions of children's minds!