Quotes About Instinct

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

We are wired to find love.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Dancing has been in us, in people, since the Neanderthal age. There's something about moving, something about interpreting yourself to the music, that's attractive, that's interesting, that's intriguing, and everyone wishes they could do that.

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

We all have a dinosaur deep within us just trying to get out.

One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

We all have our preferences - some people go for birds - but for me, there's just something about the wolf; the design of it is really aesthetically pleasing.

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be.

When a wolf doesn't want to do something, they look really cute.

Researching 'Lone Wolf,' I was amazed at how thoughtful and intelligent these animals are. There has never been a documented attack against a human by a wolf that wasn't provoked by the human.

A hungry wolf at all the herd will run, In hopes, through many, to make sure of one.

People sometimes call me Wolf.

I want to get a wolf and an eagle.

It's a pretty weird feeling when a wolf is scared of you.

The wolf is my favorite animal.

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

Throw me to the wolves. I learn faster when I'm around wolves and sharks.

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Domestic dogs thrive in the backyard and at the foot of the bed. Wolves thrive on the hunt in the country's wildlands.

Wolves want to be wolves. Servals want to be servals. Bears want to be bears. And it is impossible to be a wolf or a serval or a bear when living in a cage.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.