We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason) but upon that department that is deep and sure which is instinct.

Charles Sanders Peirce
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  1. In the name of being social, we learn to ignore our natural instinct. Society keeps dictating do's and don'ts which we keep obeying day in and day out. - Chitralekha Paul

  2. I would advise a stupid woman always to follow her hsuband - however, a smart woman should rely on her own instincts. - Peter Prange

  3. There are many paths beyond the rules of limited thinking. Trust your instincts! - Bryant McGill

  4. Love alters all. Unblood my instinct, love. - Theodore Roethke

  5. Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's. - Billy Wilder

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  2. Upon this first, and in one sense this sole, rule of reason, that in order to learn you must desire to learn, and in so desiring not be satisfied with what you already incline to think, there follows one corollary which itself deserves to be...

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