False conclusions which have been reasoned out are infinitely worse than blind impulse. — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Reason in my philosophy is only a harmony among irrational impulses. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
I have a strong impulse to protect history and time and the lineage of events. — Ariel Pink Copy Share Image
Suppression of impulses that would put you in danger is obviously an important neurobiological function. — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
I've never had the impulse for someone else to translate me into my own language. My impulse has always been to translate… — Idra Novey Copy Share Image
Arts and the Sciences are a natural symbiosis. They stem from the same human existential impulse - exploration. Exploration of what lies… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires,… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Love of animals is a universal impulse, a common ground on which all of us may meet. By loving and understanding animals,… — Louis J. Camuti Copy Share Image
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When I look up, I see people cashing in. I don't see heaven or saints or angels. I see people cashing in… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. There is in every living creature an… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I know whom we must fight...it is the Church. For all its history, it's tried to suppress and control every natural impulse.That… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
…goal directed self-imposed delay of gratification is perhaps the essence of emotional self-regulation: the ability to deny impulse in the service of… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch.… — Kelley Walker Copy Share Image
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I believe that it may happen that one will succeed, and one must not begin to despair, even though defeated here and… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Mr. Donald Trump talking about the US Mexican border, he's not doing anything new or unusual. It's something that's very much in… — Lucy Hughes-Hallett Copy Share Image
The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to… — Haroon Moghul Copy Share Image
The desire to punish is a desire that emanates from a place of equality and justice. The lesson I feel that we… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and… — David Spangler Copy Share Image
When the mind is in a state of uncertainty the smallest impulse directs it to either side. — Terence Copy Share Image
TALK, v.t. To commit an indiscretion without temptation, from an impulse without purpose. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I do have an impulse to sort of leverage what I say against something I disagree with. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
