Quotes About Instinct

The first and foremost instinct of humans is neither sex nor aggression. It is to seek contact and comforting connection.

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't.

Coward: A man in whom the instinct of self-preservation acts normally.

Release your Inner Bonobo

Intuition only tells them what they want, not how to achieve it

Appetite knows what it craves, without cerebral embellishment. It tends not to waste any time laying hold of its tools. That was the thing I had recognised here: appetite. I recognised it precisely because, in a context like this, it was so unfamiliar. It had forced me to rule out everything else. And there was a second reason for my recognition, which because unprecedented was not recognition at all, but astounding discovery: Martha's face told me. I saw appetite there...

Our animal origins are constantly lurking behind, even if they are filtered through complicated social evolution.

Having a family is really important. And there would be something missing in my life as a woman if I didn't at least attempt to fulfil that side of me. Just for a certain period of your life, to have your sole purpose to be nurturing, feeding and protecting someone else: it's animalistic, isn't it? It's beautiful.

The most talented investors are animals solely focused on winning.

Looking back, I realize that nurturing curiosity and the instinct to seek solutions are perhaps the most important contributions education can make.

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

I've done some things I've been scared to see. But you can kind of feel when you've got a hit on your hands.

You back a big cat into a corner and somebody is going to get bloody.

I just know that after I help somebody and I see it made a difference, I feel good. I understand that a lot of people aren't as fortunate as others. It's just instinctual for me. I don't know who I picked it up from, but I love to do it a lot.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

We are somehow natured, not just to reproduce, but for sociality and even for culture.

Our first act as free men was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. thats all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread.

the kiss and the bite are such close cousins that in the heat of love they are too readily confounded

Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.

Sometimes you just get a feeling about someone and that feeling is worth more than all of the little things put together.

I grabbed at my chest, instinctively, and he grabbed at his. We were both trying to stop the pain, which was the result of his thoughts of ending his pursuit of me.

The only thing I can tell you is when it's there, you know it. And when it ain't, no amount of wishful thinking will make it so.

All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves.

If you have to ask yourself if it's love, it's not.