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Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius. – Josh Billings	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 13 years ago
All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain. – Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin. – Katharine Butler Hathaway	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All men have an instinct for conflict at least, all healthy men. – Hilaire Belloc	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. – Socrates	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it. – Elaine Agather	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. – Don Marquis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. – Anne Morrow Lindbergh	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first ... Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. – Richard Milhous Nixon	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. – English Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To live is like love, all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often. – Samuel Butler	added by anonymous 14 years ago
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, they finish by loading honors on your head. – Jean Cocteau	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted, it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. – George Santayana	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. – Carl Gustav Jung	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosiac, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed. – Hector Hugh Munro	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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