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There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
-Joseph Addison
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Instinct is untaught ability.
-Alexander Bain
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You must train your intuition -- you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
-Ingrid Bergman
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If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
-Albert Einstein
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A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Instinct is the nose of the mind.
-Madame de Girardin
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To see life from the perspective of intuition is to have vision. To see life from the perspective of intuition is to see life from the perspective of wholeness. It is to understand that life is basically one and that we are part of life. While the intellect can only see the details, intuition sees the whole. To see life from the perspective of intuition is like looking at life from the summit of the mountain, whereas seeing life only from the perspective of intellect is like looking at life from the foot of the mountain. Through learning to listen to our intuition, we learn to be in contact with the Whole.
-Swami Dhyan Giten
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Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.
-Van Hartmann
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
-Immanuel Kant
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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
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It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
-James Russell Lowell
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Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
-Don Marquis
The Almost Perfect State
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The active part of man consists of powerful instincts, some of which are gentle and continuous; others violent and short; some baser, some nobler, and all necessary.
-Francis W. Newman
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Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
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The natural man has only two primal passions, to get and to beget.
-William Osler
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
-George Bernard Shaw
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Books about Instinct
