Quotes About Instinct

Regarding Girl Scout Camp survival skills: "For instance, if I see a snake, I should stand still or walk backwards slowly, never run. I am one hundred percent sure I will not do that. But now, while running as fast as I can, I will be thinking, I shouldn't be running.

Intuition means, intuition, or to be taught from within. It is man's unerring guide

It does not mean that you throw money away or spend foolishly. It means that you are fearless in following your intuitive leads to spend or to give.

But if men are, on the one hand, irresistibly impelled towards what is for their profit, and if, on the other, they resist instinctively what is hurtful, we are forced to conclude that each nation carries in its bosom a natural force of expansion, and a not less natural force of resistance, which forces are equally injurious to all other nations; or, in other words, that antagonism and war are the natural state of human society.

Esta funesta inclinación nace de la constitución misma del hombre, de ese sentimiento primitivo, universal, invencible, que lo empuja hacia el bienestar y lo hace huir de la incomodidad, el esfuerzo y el dolor.

Il faut se décider; ou bien on vit avec quelqu'un, ou bien on le désire. On ne peut pas désirer ce qu'on a, c'est contre nature.

On ne peut pas désirer ce qu'on a, c'est cotre-nature.

Trebuie sa te hotarasti ori traiesti cu cineva, ori il doresti. Nu poti dori ceea ce ai, e impotriva naturii.

Dans les luttes animales, [il n'y a] aucun acharnement cruel, aucune férocité gratuite. En fait, l'homme seul est vraiment bestial, les animaux ne le sont jamais. La cruauté sadique est humaine.

Aquello que he considerado como apego a la propiedad, no es más que el instinto carnal del campesino, hijo de campesinos, nacido de aquellos que, desde hace siglos, interrogan con angustia el horizonte.

From the gut comes the strut, and where hunger reigns, strength abstains.

Push something in someone's face, and they will shove it away reflexively. Threaten to snatch it away from them, and sometimes they become convinced that it is what they want.

People were animals, and animals were nothing but teeth. You bit first, and you bit often. That was the only way to survive.

Irrationally, Mosca felt she should have inherited her father's intimate knowledge of Mandelion. His throwaway comments about the city should have magically meshed in her mind, giving her a faultless instinct for finding her way around.

Bear] was curious and patient, but his fear could whip-crack into rage in an instant.

Humans living and dead might suddenly turn on you, but wild things just lived on in their brute, wild way, caring nothing for you. When they died, they left no ghosts.

Whatever a guidebook says, wether or not you leave somewhere with a sense of the place is entirely a matter of smell and instinct.

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

Routine is the enemy of instinct......It's better to change and fail than to settle.

As I looked outside I noticed a street light crowded by moths. But as soon as that light went off, the moths fled in search of light (they seemed inseparable). Apparently, insects (moths) that are attracted to light know something we don't ~ go figure.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I'd rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.