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“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
Oprah Winfrey
“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.”
Amedeo Modigliani
“Science, supported by humanity as a whole, has enabled us to explain that when humans became fully conscious and able to wrest management of our lives from our instincts, our instincts resisted this takeover and that it was this opposition that unavoidably led to the ‘corrupted’, upset angry, egocentric and alienated state of our human condition. Further, it is this ability now to understand how we became upset that allows that upset state to subside.”
Jeremy Griffith
“All I can do is act according to my deepest instinct, and be whatever I must be - crazy or ribald or sad or compassionate or loving or indifferent. That is all anybody can do.”
Katharine Butler Hathaway
“To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value...surely that is to lead the noble life.”
George E. Woodberry
“Some people spend their lives trying as best they can, at least in public, to appear to be living a Christian life. They fail miserably, fooling no one, because the dogma goes against our sexual desires and survival instincts.”
Bobby W. Miller
“When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.”
Angelina Jolie
“I think everything is just so quick, you don't have time to think. It's all instinct, see a hole and bring it.”
Adam Kesler