Quotes About Instinct

A phenomenon I have had cause to notice time and again in both my professional and my social life is that when one meets a large group of people all at once, one somehow knows-as if by otherworldly instinct-which of them one will enjoy speaking to and which are worth avoiding.

Some of us are killers. It's in our blood... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.

The belly rules the mind.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.

we saw a female attack another female from her own community, and then steal and eat her infant.

The instinct for self-deception in human beings makes them try to banish from their minds dangers of which at bottom they are perfectly aware by declaring them non-existent.

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago. Only what I want to preserve for myself has any claim to be preserved for others. So I ask my memories to speak and choose for me, and give at least some faint reflection of my life before it sinks into the dark.

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.

Intuition is like a child. It gets louder and louder until it is heard.

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

The truth is, if a werewolf behaved like this psychopath it wouldn't be because he was part animal, but because he was still too human. Only humans kill for sport.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

Why do I act as I do? To tell you the truth, I have absolutely no idea why. It is simply my nature to act as I act, and that's all I can say.

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!

If a cat sits on a hot stove, that cat won't sit on a hot stove again. That cat won't sit on a cold stove either. That cat just don't like stoves.

Humans are beasts, until tamed.

You are born with the kingdom laws programmed into your being

I hunt therefore I am.

We're just animals in a cage. They're just feeding us to keep us alive.

The hair on the back of the neck stood erect and you ran, in spite of yourself, ribs ringing with panic, certain as a child running up the cellar stairs that something very bad was after you.

You have a decision to make and right now too little information for making it." By chance or instinct, she had hit on the type of reasoning that could move my grandfather