Instinct/history

Famous quotes containing the words instinct and/or history:

“Reason is sight. Instinct is touch. Intuition is smell.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“The history of reform is always identical; it is the comparison of the idea with the fact. Our modes of living are not agreeable to our imagination. We suspect they are unworthy. We arraign our daily employments.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)