Quotes About Instinct

You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.

Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy, perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.

Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right, it's ended up not being right.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

I write out of instinct.

All that a man hath will he give for his life.

The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

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

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

It is too bad if you have to do everything upon reflection and can't do anything from early habit.

Habit is stronger than reason.

Nothing is more powerful than habit.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.

Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.