Quotes About Instinct

Evolutionary biologists have identified a rule they call the life/dinner principle. A predator puts less effort into the chase than its prey: if the hunter fails it loses only its dinner, if the hunted fails it loses its life.

There's a beast in every man and it stirs when you put a sword in his hand.

A man might befriend a wolf, even break a wolf, but no man could truly tame a wolf.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs.

Something about the howling of a wolf took a man right out of his here and now and left him in a dark forest of the mind, running naked before the pack.

Everything Syrio Forel had ever taught her vanished in a heartbeat. In that instant of sudden terror, the only lesson Arya could remember was the one Jon Snow had given her, the very first. She stuck him with the pointy end, driving the blade upward with a wild, hysterical strength.

If the lamb sees the knife, she panics. Her panic seeps into her meat, darkens it, fouls the flavor.

There's always a bear,

The rat squealed as he bit into it, squirming wildly in his hands, frantic to escape.

There is a savage beast in every man, and when you hand that man a sword or spear and send him forth to war, the beast stirs. The scent of blood is all it takes to wake him.

A real wolf would finish a wounded animal.

Why does a bear shit in the woods?" he demanded. "Because it is his nature. Lying comes as easily as breathing to a man

Habit is stronger than reason

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it ca.

Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

Scepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly through long youth, until at last, in the ripeness of instinct and discretion, it can be safely exchanged for fidelity and happiness.

At five, I had the intuitive, instinctive faith that my cosmos, my family and the world were good and true and beautiful. That somehow I had always been and always would be. And I knew in a way of a five-year-old that I had worth and dignity and individuality. Later, when I read Nietzsche's statement that these are not given to us by nature but are tasks that we must somehow solve, I knew him to be wrong. We all had them once. We

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

Nothing but a little savage...

We humans fear the beast within the wolf because we do not understand the beast within ourselves.

There are other ways of knowing than just through reason.

If you are drowning in a sewer, your first concern might be that you are drowning, not how vile you smell.

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