“ Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another. ”
- Immanuel Kant- Copy
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“ As long as man labors for a physical existence, though an act of necessity almost, he is yet natural; it is life, though that of this world, for which he instinctively works. ”
- Jones Very- Copy
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“ Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ”
- Francis Cabot Lowell- Copy
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“ Being varied is something I do instinctively and naturally. I feel a tremendous sense of accomplishment. ”
- Sarah Brightman- Copy
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“ There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow humans. ”
- Malcolm Muggeridge- Copy
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“ The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent, and is modest about it. ”
- James Agate- Copy
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“ The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ Just as those who practice the same profession recognize each other instinctively, so do those who practice the same vice. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
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“ It is curious how instinctively one protects the image of oneself from idolatry or any other handling that could make it ridiculous, or too unlike the original to be believed any longer. ”
- Virginia Woolf- Copy
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“ How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. ”
- Van Wyck Brooks- Copy
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“ Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses. ”
- John Weitz- Copy
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“ For one human being instinctively feels respect and love for another human being so long as he does not know him well enough to judge him; and that he does not, the craving he feels is evidence. ”
- Thomas Mann- Copy
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“ You know what happens when I'm singing? My lip - if I'm in a certain mood - my lip will naturally, instinctively go up when I'm snarling or when I'm upset onstage or when I'm really into whatever I'm singing. And that's not intentional. But I see these photos regularly of comparisons of him and me with that lip going up… ”
- Lisa Marie Presley- Copy
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“ The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. ”
- George Orwell- Copy
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“ I feel with TV you're allowed more freedom. With television there's more time to create something through the episodes. The fact that you're working harder on the surface seems more difficult, but you get into a way of working where if you're not allowed to stop and breathe and think about it, you just go on instinctively, which is the way I prefer anyway… ”
- Robert Carlyle- Copy
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“ The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all. ”
- Dr. Benjamin Spock- Copy
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“ It is no accident that banks resemble temples, preferably Greek, and that the supplicants who come to perform the rites of deposit and withdrawal instinctively lower their voices into the registers of awe. Even the most junior tellers acquire within weeks of their employment the officiousness of hierophants tending an eternal flame… ”
- Lewis H. Lapham- Copy
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“ He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ For all his learning or sophistication, man still instinctively reaches towards that force beyond. Only arrogance can deny its existence, and the denial falters in the face of evidence on every hand. In every tuft of grass, in every bird, in every opening bud, there it is. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
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