Quotes About Instinct

Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs. Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Collectors are people with a tactical instinct; their experience teaches them that when they capture a strange city, the smallest antique shop can be a fortress, the most remote stationery store a key position. How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Cats ask plainly for what they want.

bears are getting smart. Evolution, right? If they get hungry enough, they knock on doors and wait for someone to come out on the porch. Then they attack,

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

He leaned toward her, lowered his voice. "I don't trust her. I can't even tell you why, but there's something.

My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

Why would anyone run unless he was being chased?

There isn't a lot a mother won't do for her child, Kyra. It's sort of hardwired into our DNA.

What I began to realize was that habit refers to how you perform an action, not what the action is.

Don't get lost, follow your intuition.

Three quarters of these people know Instinctively what ought to be The nature of society And how they'd live there if they could. If it were easy to be good, And cheap, and plain as evil, how, We all would be its members now...

I came to consider the instinct as nothing more than the "motor aspect of pleasure."

Which do you prefer, she says. Sex or Violence? I try to smile. What's the difference, really.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog.

Of course, we and our animal cousins are quickly alerted to signs of opportunities to mate or to feed, and advertisers design billboards accordingly.

Laziness is built deep into our nature.

answer. Intuition is nothing more and nothing less than recognition.

We marvel at the story of the firefighter who has a sudden urge to escape a burning house just before it collapses, because the firefighter knows the danger intuitively, "without knowing how he knows." However, we also do not know how we immediately know that a person we see as we enter a room is our friend Peter.

The implication is clear: as the psychologist Jonathan Haidt said in another context, "The emotional tail wags the rational dog