Innate Quotes

“It is human nature to try hardest to accomplish the very thing we are told is impossible.  Why?  Because innately we know that nothing's impossible.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

“Are people innately altruistic?" is the wrong kind of question to ask. People are people, and they respond to incentives. They can nearly always be manipulated--for good or ill--if only you find the right levers.”
― Levitt & Dubner, SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes And Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance

“To leading a great life, it’s obvious that we must understand and appreciate our own self, our innate capabilities, talents, weak spots and, of course, strengths.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“We, in the interest of the so-called progress, have been persuaded to leave the production and at times the cooking of our food to companies whose owners and employees make a living by exploiting our busyness or laziness and our innate hunger to continue living.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, The Use and Misuse of Children

“The ability to be emotive comes from within...it's innate".”
― Kunal Karan Kapoor

“The culture's reverence for nature accentuates Kyoto's innate beauty. Designs on fabric, pottery, lacquer, and folding screens depict swirling water, budding branches, and birds in flight. Delicate woodcuts and scrolls celebrate the moonlight, rain, and snow. Elegant restaurant dishes arrive with edible garnishes of seasonal flora.”
― Victoria Abbott Riccardi, Untangling My Chopsticks: A Culinary Sojourn in Kyoto

“The belief in the innate virtues of constitutions is as baseless as was the belief in the natural superiorities of royal personages.”
― Herbert Spencer, The Study of Sociology

“Perfection is both innate and a work in progress.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“woMAN-ipulate or IMAGE-innate

Did GOD create MAN in his own image?
OR
Did MAN create GOD in his own image?”
― Kamil Ali, The Initiates

“I am not sure that you can be taught how to love. In many ways it is innate - just watch and see what small child effortlessly does. But you can be reminded of it and invited to it and reminded of it.”
― Rasheed Ogunlaru

“Medieval illustrations show people in every other human activity-making love and dying, sleeping and eating, in bed and in the bath, praying, hunting, dancing, plowing, in games and in combat, trading, traveling, reading and writing—yet so rarely with children as to raise the question: Why not? Maternal love, like sex, is generally considered too innate to be eradicable, but perhaps under certain unfavorable conditions it may atrophy. Owing to the high infant mortality of the times, estimated at one or two in three, the investment of love in a young child may have been so unrewarding that by some ruse of nature, as when overcrowded rodents in captivity will not breed, it was suppressed. Perhaps also the frequent childbearing put less value on the product. A child was born and died and another took its place.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

“The most important things worth knowing are innate in you already.”
― John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education: An Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling

“I'm not sure what the adaptive advantage could be to share an innate and collective misery.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger

“The sieges of Gvozdansko (1578) and Alamo (1836) tell the true stories of the small bands of the heroes who stood against the massive armies to defend their homelands. They echo innate human devotion to the idea of fighting for freedom.”
― Vinko Vrbanic

“There are idiots with PhDs and geniuses who never went to college.
Talent is an innate thing. Stupidity too.”
― Augusto Branco

“I can not make love when there is a feeling. It would turn joy into lust, and its outcome would be a mental disorder rather than innate surrendering.”
― Lenfantvivant

“The understanding that some things are worth your life, some people are worth your life, is something we can't teach.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, The Gathering Elements

“Maybe the best things in life had no reason and we should just cherish them as the gift they were.”
― Sue Lynn Tan, Immortal