Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
Margaret A. Ribble
Civilized people cannot fully satisfy their sexual instinct without love
Bertrand Russell
Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
Billy Wilder
When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.
Patanjali
I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct - and societal repression much more devastating.
D.H. Lawrence
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
Elaine Agather
Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
John Sterling
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
The drama is not a mere copy of nature, not a facsimile. It is the free running hand of genius, under the impression of its liveliest wit or most passionate impulses, a thousand times adorning or feeling all as it goes; and you must read it, as the healthy instinct of audiences almost always does, if the critics will let them alone, with a grain of allowance, and a tendency to go away with as much of it for use as is necessary, and the rest for the luxury of laughter, pity, or poetical admiration.
Leigh Hunt
The short lesson that comes out of long experience in political agitation is something like this: all the motive power in all of these movements is the instinct of religious feeling. All the obstruction comes from attempting to rely on anything else. Conciliation is the enemy.
John Jay Chapman
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.
Paul Pearshall