Quotes About Instinct

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true way.

Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

The swallow is not ensnared by men because of its gentle nature. [Lat., At caret insidiis hominum, quia mitis, hirundo.]

To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter, and none of those instincts are given much play at the warehouse!

The animals to whom nature has given the faculty we call cunning know always when to use it, and use it wisely; but when man descends to cunning he blunders and betrays.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

All men desire by nature to know.

... engineering is a basic instinct in man, the expression of which is existentially fulfilling.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.

Men are beasts! Nothing more! We fight! We kill! We devour our prey! Beasts do not stand behind beasts, little prince... They use each other so long as it suits their own selfish purpose!

There is a dog in every man.

There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it.

Forget you are a man. Loose the animal you hide inside.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it - and they do enjoy it as much as man and other circumstances will allow.

Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.