Quotes About Instinct

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right/

Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end, it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.

Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.

Man had become too much man and not enough animal

How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire. He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground. He stood a long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.

The Animal does not question lif. It lives. It's very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life.

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me.

Suddenly, he needed the gun again, to touch the shape of killing, like touching that wild old man.

They had been hiding out, waiting, given shelter by my intuitive self, all these years.

They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.

No hay miedo que pueda hacer frente al hambre, no hay paciencia que pueda hacerlo desaparecer, la repugnancia simplemente no existe donde existe el hambre; y en cuanto a la superstición, y lo que podríamos llamar principios, tiene menos peso que la hojarasca de viento.

It was only after I had finished writing the first part that the whole story revealed itself to me in its tragic character and in the march of its events as unavoidable and sufficiently ample in its outline to give free play to my creative instinct and to the dramatic possibilities of the subject

The grouper could wait until the gobie was finished removing ectoparasites, then eat it, yet refrains from doing so.

The inner voice of intuition speaks like a flash, it is always spontaneous and unannounced.

The instinct of self-preservation is the first law of nature; your strongest instinct is the most potent of all auto-suggestions.

Cats seem to go along on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

I also don't trust Caribou anymore. They're out there, on the tundra, waiting... Something's going down. I'm right about this.

We are beasts and this is our consolation.

I can manifest my neurotical emotions, emancipate an epicureal instinct, and elaborate on my heterosexual tendencies.

for, though the instinct to fight and to kill is surely qualified by one's personal courage, the instinct to watch others fight and kill is evidently inborn. When the boxing fan shouts, 'Kill him! Kill him!' he is betraying no peculiar pathology or quirk but asserting his common humanity and his kinship, however distant, with the thousands upon thousands of spectators who crowded into the Roman amphitheaters to see gladiators fight to the death.

Era como un perro: dale la espalda, empieza a correr y se te hecha encima El miedo Huele. Los Depredadores lo notan.

My scent's all over you. It's inside of you. That's how my people will know who your mate is. It's also a warning.

There's a lot of stuff you know and you don't even know how you know it!