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Instincts Quotes


These are some of the best 'Instincts' quotations and sayings.


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A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

All our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

By learning to contact, listen to, and act on our intuition, we can directly connect to the higher power of the universe and allow it to become our guiding force.

Command by instinct is swifter, subtler, deeper, more accurate, more in touch with reality than command by conscious mind. The discovery takes one's breath away.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

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.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every time a resolve or fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing fruit, it is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future emotions from taking the normal path of discharge.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Facts are not truths; they are not conclusions; they are not even premises, but in the nature and parts of premises

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

I do not believe that the deeper problems of living can ever be answered by the process of thought. I believe that life itself teaches us either patience with regard to them, or reveals to us possible solutions when our hearts are pressed close against duties and sorrows and experiences of all kinds.

I follow my heart, for I can trust it.


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