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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
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
— C.S. Lewis
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
In the last analysis, most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us.
— C. G. Jung
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
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
— Jim Leach
Dum walks backwards, talking to us. We're going back to high school where our survival instincts are at their finest.
— Susan Ee
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
Since the Fall, our instincts have been to withdraw from relationship when we're in trouble, when we most need other people. (Remember
— Henry Cloud
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
What we think of as our "gut instincts" are really a very complex mosaic of past experiences, deep-seated hopes, fears, desires.
— Lisa Unger
The creative instincts, the love force must be nourished with every beat of our hearts until they overbalance the destructive instincts.
— Gladys Taber
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
There are some things too dreadful to be revealed, and it is even more dreadful how, in spite of our better instincts,we long to know about them.
— Barbara Pym
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