Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

All men have an instinct for conflict: at least, all healthy men.

It taught me that Clinton's instinct to make this about your life as a citizen, rather than his as a human being, was the right answer to these things.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

To destroy is still the strongest instinct in nature.

The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.

To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.

Instinct is untaught ability.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

Actors are trusting souls, and we must go by gut-level instinct, even after our agents and business managers weigh all the odds.

She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

Today I trust my instinct, I trust myself. Finally.