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You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice. He has no automatic knowledge of what is good for him or evil, what values his life depends on, what course of action it requires. Are you prattling about an instinct of self-preservation? An instinct of self-preservation is precisely what man does not possess. An 'instinct' in as unerring and automatic form of knowledge. A desire is not an instinct. A desire to live does not give you the knowledge required for living. And even man's desire to live is not automatic: your secret evil today is that that is the desire you do not hold. Your fear of death is not a love of life and will not give you the knowledge needed to keep it. Man must obtain his knowledge and choose his actions by a process of thinking, which nature will not force him to perform. Man has the power to act as his own destroyer--and that is the way he has acted through most of history.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
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I write out of instinct.

Jerome Weidman
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Human beings are very skilled at pretending they are not what they are, and ignoring what is inside them. This includes ignoring their natural instincts, their primal instincts, because they have this notion that they are evolving faster than other life, have evolved further, and are therefore superior. Take racism for example. As abhorrent as people may consider it, human beings are essentially tribal, and racism is simply a survival instinct embedded deep inside us, born from thousands of years of survival and experience.

Robert Black
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There are no laws set in stones, follow your basic instincts, they contain the laws that guide you existence.

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity
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Trust your instincts.

Debasish Mridha M.D.
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Instinct is untaught ability.

Alexander Bain
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Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Madame de Girardin
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I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

Barbra Streisand
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Systems die instincts remain.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
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