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We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn't listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?
— Diane Griffith
We heed no instincts but our own.
— Jean De La Fontaine
Most of all, learning to fail well means overcoming our natural instincts to blame someone - maybe ourselves - whenever something goes wrong.
— Megan McArdle
What the media are telling you to be afraid of are the wrong things ... Fear is a necessary ingredient of our survival instincts.
— Michael Moore
Never yet were the feelings and instincts of our nature violated with impunity; never yet was the voice of conscience silenced without retribution.
— Anna Brownell Jameson
With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.
— Jose Ortega Y Gasset
The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts.
— Jonathan Haidt
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
— George Bernard Shaw
No matter how evolved humans think they are, we still have the same flight-or-fight instincts of our caveman ancestors.
— Ernessa T. Carter
The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to.
— Graeme Simsion
Love is written in our instincts, yet erased by our actions.
— Gayle D. Erwin
How ironic it is that our instincts often run exactly opposite from what we truly desire for those we love.
— R.A. Salvatore
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
— Bertrand Russell
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.
— Gyorgy Kepes
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn't grow out of either of our species' two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
— Scott McCloud
Character is the measure of our freedom from the tyranny of our instincts. It is the space we create between our urges and our actions.
— Valson Thampu
Nonetheless, we experience a sense of freedom when we feel that we have the ability to make choices and satisfy our primal instincts.
— Ori Hofmekler
I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete.
— David Nicholls
It has often been our best instincts, not our worst, that have led us to do harm in the world
— Rosa Brooks
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
— Albert Einstein
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
— Charles Dudley Warner
One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16
— Diana Butler Bass
Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.
— T.D. Jakes
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
— Albert Einstein
We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
— Thomas Henry Huxley