Instinct Control Quotes

Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts.

All children are born pure egoists. They perceive their needs to the exclusion of all others. Only through socialization do they learn that some forms of gratification must be deferred and others denied.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

To "know thyself" must mean to know the malignancy of one's own instincts and to know, as well, one's power to deflect it.

The intelligence which has converted the brother of the wolf into the faithful guardian of the flock ought to be able to do something towards curbing the instincts of savagery in civilized men.