Natural Instinct quotes

Natural Instinct

32 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Aung San Suu Kyi
Aung San Suu Kyi Politician, Activist

"Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom."

Esther Hicks
Esther Hicks Author, Speaker

"Your natural instinct, from your broadest Nonphysical perspective, is to know your power. Fear is a vibration when you feel powerless. Your natural instinctual Nonphysical vibration is to know your worthiness, know your rightness, know your value. And the feeling of fear is always when you are contradicting that thought."

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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
Natural Instinct

"The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it."

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Russell Baker Writer
Natural Instinct

"My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood."

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