No one has any license to brag because he is honest. That should be natural instinct and, besides, if you are not, they put you in jail. Honesty is merely a form of insurance.
Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
I act with my gut instincts.
Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
With most people they really don't want to get hit. Because it hurts. Your natural instinct is to protect yourself. In football, you can't do that. When you try to protect yourself, you're more likely to get hurt.
Evolutionary psychologists suggest that humans experienced evolutionary benefits from brain developments that included aversion to loss and risk and from instincts for cooperation that helped strengthen communities.
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.
The instinct of interest is the universal instinct of mankind.
The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.