Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
Criminal: a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott
Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to me, and the earth seems more exhausted and richer on that side. - Phillip Connors
We come into this world crying and calling, wailing and singing; and for the first months of our life all our needs and instincts, our dissatisfactions and discoveries are immediately vocalized without apology and without censor. - Paul Newham
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
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter ! - Bruce H. Lipton
I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart.. - Laarni Venus Marie Giango
I just want my kids to love who they are, have happy lives and find something they want to do and make peace with that. Your job as a parent is to give your kids not only the instincts and talents to survive, but help them enjoy their lives."(The Power of One: Belief.net Interview; July 2005) - Susan Sarandon
Never assume but trust your instincts. - Lenny Ramirez
He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them. - James Reston Jr.
Trust your instincts. Follow your heart. - Debasish Mridha
So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving. - Robert Crais
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened. - Stanley Walker
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. - Thomas Henry Huxley
A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. - Richard Branson
I have really good instincts about friends. - Nicole Richie
Let your instincts guide you through life, and your eyes see the way through. - Tania Gardana
Trust your instincts, love with your whole heart, forgive, and never take anything for granted. - Terri Haynes Roach
Good instincts usually tell you what to do long before your head has figured it out. - Michael Burke
It was true; books had saved me in my home remodeling projects, but they fell short in teaching me how to trust my instincts, and how to stop thinking with my educated brain and more with my kneecaps and butt cheeks. - Dee Williams
Trust your instincts. - Debasish Mridha M.D.
5 steps to happiness: Don't speak badly about yourself. Trust your instincts. Let go of what you can't control. Don't be afraid to say no. Don't be afraid to say yes. - Karen Salmansohn
Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you; it means learning to respect and use your own brains and instincts; hence, grappling with hard work. - Adrienne Rich
People rely too much on their lifelong instincts. Their perception is divided by necessary obedience, which they themselves have become too weak to liberate themselves from. I'd let the Devil read me the bible, before I trusted the Words of God or the Mind of Man. - Lionel Suggs
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. - Rita Mae Brown
Trust what your instincts are telling you, it's your souls voice pointing you in the right direction. - Nikki Rowe
If the single man plants himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abides, this huge world will come around to him. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts. And never hope more than you work. - Rita Mae Brown
The brain can think, but the heart knows better. So follow your instincts, follow your inner feelings. - Debasish Mridha
A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation. - Howard Scott
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and his higher nature --- and another woman to help him forget them. - Helen Rowland
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him. - Bertrand Russell
Intelligent men never do a business; only a fool kills his own beautiful instincts for the sake of a word profit. - Thiruman Archunan
Have the discipline to listen to and to trust your instincts. - A.D. Posey
Naturally, for a person who finds his identity in something other than his full organism is less than half a man. He is cut off from complete participation in nature. Instead of being a body, he 'has' a body. Instead of living and loving he 'has' instincts for survival and copulation. - Alan W. Watts
Trust your instincts above all else. They are byproducts of natural laws and do not sway to your whims, worries and wonders. - Glenn A. Maltais
If in doubt,trust your instincts because either you are right or lack the bite to fix it right. - Asim kayani
Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instincts can be perceived. - Bertrand Russell
Simple the life, simpler will be your instincts, the laws that govern universe will obey your simplicity. - Santosh Kalwar
He continued along the route that he had reconnoitered the morning before. And the morning before that. He needed to change his route some to see if he was actually being followed. His instincts said he was clear, but his training ordered him to make sure. - J.T. Patten
The Church being what she is cannot have the instincts of a gentleman. - George Everett Macdonald
There is no such thing as change, but I would describe it as an alteration.'' Change implies transformation, if humanity has instincts and impulses how can we deny the very things that make us human.'' If change implies transformation wouldn't that mean we have no impulses and instincts. - Testy McTesterson
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral. - Charles Darwin