Top 98 Innately Quotes
#1. I've got this theory that human beings are innately religious; we have a belief system. It doesn't have to be a theist form, necessarily. But we need a belief system, some framework on which to hang our behavior.
Tana French
#2. I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.
Laurie Simmons
#3. Aristotle and Plato considered Greeks so innately superior to barbarians that slavery is justified so long as the master is Greek and the slave barbarian.
Bertrand Russell
#4. Consider that we live in a world predicated upon fear. The underlying assumption is that human beings are innately evil and must be groomed and controlled. That is the dichotomy that is set up within the human mind, good and evil.
Frederick Lenz
#5. Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
Mary Karr
#6. Human beings are innately loving beings. When we fail to love, it is because an element of ignorance has intruded into our experience, submerging our natural impulse to love.
Nhat Hanh
#7. It's hard to pull apart empathy from compassion. What is really clear is that we innately care for other people at least to some extent.
Paul Bloom
#8. My dad didn't have a formal education, but he had a wonderful vocabulary. So in 'Harvest,' I wanted my main character to be an innately intelligent man who would have the vocabulary to say whatever he wanted in the same way as lots of working-class people can.
Jim Crace
#9. Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. Not an emptiness but repletion A filling up.
Anne D. LeClaire
#10. It is an honorable charge to shine the light
and stand up for what is true, just, and right.
Guardians of Light know innately that whenever we insert honor, love, and truth into any experience, we shall always remove pain.
Molly Friedenfeld
#11. There is no problem this universe can hand you that you aren't innately designed to solve. If it has been handed to you, it can be handled by you. This is the brilliant effectiveness of our design.
Steve Maraboli
#12. I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
Faith Prince
#13. Kids know what's going on. They always respond to The Beatles, for instance. Doesn't matter when they were born, they always seem to respond. Show me a kid who innately doesn't like The Beatles, and I'll show you a bad seed.
Mark Oliver Everett
#14. Like Wollstonecraft, Austen rejects the notion that 'man was made to reason, woman to feel.' Perhaps Austen was tired of reading passages in conduct books suggesting that young women were innately sensitive, quivering, emotional messes.
Emily Auerbach
#15. I think you have to remember that Americans saw their purpose as so innately good that they could excuse the pain they would inflict on others to carry out those purposes. Because the purposes were so good, they would justify this pain we were inflicting on other people.
Neil Sheehan
#16. Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
Karen Kingsbury
#17. The result is a fragile state of political egalitarianism achieved by cooperation among creatures who are innately predisposed to hierarchical arrangements.
Jonathan Haidt
#18. If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?
David Sedaris
#19. You know what? I'm really attracted to British women, there's something innately proper about them. However badly they behave their accent is so cute that it makes up for everything!
Josh Hartnett
#20. I believe innately in the human spirit being a powerful and positive thing. And that just comes out, whether you like it or not. It comes out in the writing.
Simon Beaufoy
#21. Innately, the Old Soul carries a sense of world-wariness as he stands on the outside, looking in. As an observer, the Old Soul like the Steppenwolf, feels an all-pervading sense of alienation. He is the ultimate Outsider who is both in the world, but not quite of the world at the same time.
Aletheia Luna
#22. If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.
Marcus Buckingham
#23. I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.
Alex Colville
#24. But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
Clive Barker
#25. Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby ... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.
Craig Parker
#27. I think innately knew that music draws people together and that good music is liked by almost everybody.
Willie Nelson
#28. Contrary to secularist myth, science in practice is innately and irrepressibly religious: it serves either God or idolatry. But one of the features of idolatry is deceit. In this case, idolatry conceals from itself that it is idolatry.
Vern Sheridan Poythress
#29. She was innately suspicious of language because she could "hear" with remarkable accuracy what lay behind it, and also she just didn't know how to talk very well.
Anne Rice
#30. As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
Frank Ocean
#31. One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. The danger of growing up surrounded by endless sweet and salty industrial concoctions is not that we are innately incapable of resisting them but that the more frequently we eat them, especially in childhood, the more they train us to expect all food to taste this way.
Bee Wilson
#33. Each individual is more or less dimly aware of his significance, is aware that he's something innately superior, something eternal
and lives, is obligated to live, in the moment and for the moment.
Ivan Turgenev
#34. Biophilia, if it exists, and I believe it exists, is the innately emotional affiliation of human beings to other living organisms.
E. O. Wilson
#35. The unusual thing about new relationships is that they innately want to become grown-up relationships as fast as they can. They do this by pulling you to learn everything you can about each other, even though the most exciting part about a new relationship is the mystery of who the other person is.
David Bowick
#36. People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
John Lasseter
#37. My personality is just innately even-keeled. I'm not such a huge daredevil. Which is not to say I'm not a passionate woman. I don't know, maybe it's my physiological makeup, but I don't like the feeling of anything in my system, other than a glass of wine now and then.
Vera Farmiga
#38. The Socialist system requires that each individual act out of selfless, altruistic motives. It sounds nice, but the only way that could happen is if Man were innately centered on others.
Mark David Henderson
#39. The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.
Deborah Day
#40. Nature still obstinately refuses to co-operate by making the rich people innately superior to the poor people.
Beatrice Webb
#41. It is much easier for a woman to meditate than it is for men, innately. Their subtle physical bodies pick up the kundalini much more quickly.
Frederick Lenz
#42. I am innately very shy, and I have struggled with that challenge for years.
Sheri L. Dew
#43. I think a lot of women innately know how to play their hand. I'm not a big one for the rules.
Katherine Heigl
#44. She'd exchanged her dreams of her parents for the dogma of her instructors, but neither of those outlooks were innately her own.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. Many of the racial problems in America are caused by the fact that people are innately tribal, and politicians know how to exploit that biological fact.
Jim Goad
#46. Though women are no longer barred from university laboratories and scientific societies, the idea that they are innately less suited to mathematical science is deeply ingrained in our cultural genes.
Margaret Wertheim
#47. Innately within us, resides the Spirit which wants to enlighten you, to give the peace, the bliss and the joy of our being.
Nirmala Srivastava
#48. I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.
Dylan O'Brien
#49. All leaders, male or female, innately possess feminine qualities like empathy, candor and vulnerability - the difference lies in which leaders choose to suppress those qualities, and which choose to leverage them as strengths.
John Gerzema
#50. I believe in God, but even if you don't, you can believe in a self, the person who is innately who you are. Once you fully become that person, then everything you do will be blessed.
Mary Karr
#51. Steve was innately comfortable trusting his gut; it's a characteristic of the best entrepreneurs, a necessity for anyone who wants to make a living developing things no one has ever quite imagined before.
Brent Schlender
#52. We can never know how much they deserve our sympathy, but we have to give it unreservedly as they are people innately full of the divine who instead choose to behave infernally owing to poor programming.
Thomm Quackenbush
#53. God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.
Margaret Atwood
#54. Imagination could never invent the number of different contradictions that exist innately in each person's heart.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#55. The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen [these qualities] in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.
Martha Beck
#56. Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
Peter Watts
#57. People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they can do a better job.
Mark Thomas
#58. I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross
Kim Deal
#59. Enlightenment is at the source of everything. From it, flows our Intuition and our creative energy. It is the delta of the human spirit ~ what we innately seek to return to, as we find ourselves lost in this world.
Kim Chestney
#60. She was here to frame him, not screw him. Damn, the legends were true. There was something innately alluring about Andarions. Almost like they put off some kind of ferocious do-me pheromone.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#61. It seems there is more interest in sunsets than sunrises. Perhaps because innately we fear the dark.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. Innately, there are qualities in human beings that are always repetitive. There are things like love and hate and jealousy that are just going to be there forever.
Shiloh Fernandez
#63. I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be.
Will Smith
#64. An innately sensitive man who has no imagination could, nevertheless write admirable novels.
Marcel Proust
#65. Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
Steve Maraboli
#66. We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.
David Simon
#67. I would not call myself an optimist, even though I would aspire to be. I am innately a skeptic. There's kind of an incessant dissatisfaction that I have, that I'm always trying to either expose or fight against or wrestle with.
Carrie Brownstein
#68. Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at.
Steven Pinker
#69. Electronic music is innately tied to the technology used to create it - as the tools evolve, so will the art.
Richie Hawtin
#70. Because God created male and female, we women are innately feminine. Granted, a woman can accentuate her femininity or she can detract from it, but she cannot change it - our sex chromosomes are in every cell of our bodies. Our femininity is a gift of grace from a loving God.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#71. Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
Bob Newhart
#72. The claim that some races were innately superior to others was later championed by Hitler, and so if Hitler was a nativist, then all nativists were Nazis. (That conclusion is illogical, but it makes sense emotionally if you dislike nativism.)13 The
Jonathan Haidt
#73. Women are just beginning to see that; there's something about being a woman that's innately different from being a man. I love what I'm seeing take place and I know Julia has so much to offer.
Kenny Loggins
#74. If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.
Steven Pinker
#75. The Chinese philosopher Mencius believed that man is innately good. He argued that anyone who saw a child falling into a well would immediately feel shock and alarm, and that this impulse, this universal capacity for commiseration, was proof positive that man is inherently good.
T. Greenwood
#77. Western man represents himself, on the political or psychological stage, in a spectacular world-theater. Our personality is innately cinematic, light-charged projections flickering on the screen of Western consciousness.
Camille Paglia
#78. Having kids is the most innately positive thing that anyone can do.
Jack Nicholson
#79. 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.
Steven D. Levitt
#80. I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.
Chelsea Clinton
#81. There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
Suzanne La Follette
#82. I think celebrity has become almost normalized. I feel like we all live our lives in a pale imitation of celebrity. With Facebook, we choose a photo that is not too good a photo - we're more arch than that. We're our own celebrity publicists. We understand it so innately.
Jess Walter
#83. Man ... put himself in a tight corner when he decided that woman was innately passive.
Nawal El Saadawi
#84. Is world peace possible or is the human race too innately aggressive? For instance: Have you ever seen women at a sample sale?
Woody Allen
#86. Even as a child, Alma innately comprehended that there were two types of silent men in the world: one type was meek and deferential; the other type was Dick Yancey. His eyes were a pair of slowly circling sharks, and as he stared at Alma now, those eyes were clearly saying: "Bring the rum.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#87. Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.
Steven Pinker
#88. Are human beings intrinsically good but corruptible by the forces of evil, or the reverse, innately sinful yet redeemable by the forces of good?
Edward O. Wilson
#89. The currency of universal values make brands innately sharable.
Simon Mainwaring
#90. We're all innately creative; I'm not bringing anything magical to it. Ninety percent of inventing is putting in the hours and just trying. You don't need to make a big leap - you - need to take a thousand small steps.
James Jorash
#91. 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
#92. We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of.
Sharon Salzberg
#93. I think the understanding of oneness and interconnectivity of the whole Universe is something we have innately, something we're born with. We are however very skillful at ignoring and pretending we don't have or know it.
Brad Warner
#94. It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
Halsey
#95. Libraries are innately subversive institutions, born of the radical notion that every member of society deserves free, high-quality access to knowledge and culture.
Matt Finch
#96. The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.
Gabriel Byrne
#97. They were natural storytellers and beautiful singers; innately charming people who treated us like long-lost cousins.
Ransom Riggs
#98. Peaceful, lawful protest - if it is effective - is innately disruptive of 'business as usual.' That is why it is effective.
Naomi Wolf
