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| Instinkt är en avsiktlig handling under villken vi inte har någon klar uppfattning om avsikten. | Nicolai Hartmann |
| The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. | Elaine Agather |
| Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. | Michael Burke (1916-) |
| Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is | Van Hartmann |
| There is no instinct like that of the heart. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey "people." People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war.... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.... | C.S. Lewis (1898-1963) |
| The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach | Sophocles (496 f.Kr.-406 f.Kr.) |
| When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb. | Patanjali |
| Instinct is the nose of the mind | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.' | Dr. Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) |
| The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head. | Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) |
| Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway | George Santayana (1863-1952) |
| Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better. | Henri Matisse (1869-1954) |
| Instinct is untaught ability | Alexander Bain |
| The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. | Elaine Agather |
| Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response. | Amos Bronson Alcott (1799-1888) |
| A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The love of glory, the fear of disgrace, the incentive to succeed, the desire to live in comfort, and the instinct to humiliate others are often the cause of that courage so renowned among men | François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) |
| As the traveler who has lost his way, throws his reins on his horse's neck, and trusts to the instinct of the animal to find his road, so must we do with the divine animal who carries us through this world | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper | Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) |
| There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. | Golda Meir (1898-1978) |
| There is no instinct like that of the heart. | Lord Byron (1788-1824) |
| Young as he was, his instinct told him that the best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way - who husbands it too carefully to waste it where it can be dispensed with | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |