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But honest instinct comes a volunteer; Sure never to o'er-shoot, but just to hit, While still too wide or short in human wit. — Alexander Pope

To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere. — Rebecca West

Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair. — Graham Greene

To stand against a crowd would take something more than ordinary courage; something that went beyond human instinct. — Diana Gabaldon

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it. — Kenneth Grahame

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations. — Carl Sagan

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. — Clarence Darrow

The fundamental axiom of economics is the human mercenary instinct. Without — Liu Cixin

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change. — H.G.Wells

Exactly what the powers of hell feed on: the best instincts in man. — Philip K. Dick

Regardless of all our pretenses, deep within, we are still unconsciously the same old cave-people. — Abhijit Naskar

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water. — Stone Gossard

Technology will never last if it ignores human beings' basic instinct to express and discover through expression. — Lemn Sissay

The desire for gold is the most universal and deeply rooted commercial instinct of the human race. — Gerald M. Loeb

Sexuality is a human instinct as natural as hunger or thirst. — Alexandra Kollontai

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden. — Robert A. Heinlein

Like hunger or thirst, the instinct for balance is built into the human body. — Deepak Chopra

But really, they did it because every human being has a basic instinct to help each other out. It might not seem that way sometimes, but it's true. — Andy Weir

Human reason borrowed many arts from the instinct of animals. — Samuel Johnson

You always want to know what happened before you. It's a human instinct to know where you came from and what preceded you. — Russell Freedman

If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have. — Kit Williams

There was the natural human survival instinct to be optimistic. — Barbara Demick

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer. — Graham Greene

The human race like to do things you are good at and avoid things that they are bad at. Avoiding it is the natural instinct. — Steve Redgrave

Human's moral compass doesn't work yet
in worlds where the instinct navigates life. — Toba Beta

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it. — Mark Twain

In Bach, Beethoven and Wagner we admire principally the depth and energy of the human mind; in Mozart, the divine instinct. — Edvard Grieg

It's a human instinct to be known. — Natasha Leggero

Satisfying a savage instinct is incomparably more pleasurable than satisfying a civilized one. — Jed Rubenfeld

Human beings have an instinct for freedom. — Lupita Nyong'o

There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.' — Timothy Keller

I was a barbarian, tender and full of violence. I translated by instinct, without any method, not merely an artistic truth but above all a human one. — Maurice De Vlaminck

Human institutions depend for their existence and stability on the impulse of self-preservation and its close associate, the fear instinct. — Boris Sidis

The oldest story around: Instinct, Emotion, and Habit get the better of human beings. — Apostolos Doxiadis

For a human being, nothing comes naturally,' said Grumman. 'We have to learn everything we do. — Philip Pullman

The instinct to survive will never change, neither will the human body's amazing ability to endure. — Lofty Wiseman

There is an art to living that is far above the base human instinct of survival. I want to live beautifully. — Jennie Allen