Quotes About Instinct

No hay nada más noble que la ley, pues distingue a los hombres de las bestias, porque éstas se rigen tan sólo por el instinto y el hombre es gobernado por las leyes de su espíritu y por tanto es libre.

Se dice que un león, cuando ha probado la sangre y la carne humana, ya no quiere comer otra cosa.

Edgar Allan Poe had used the phrase "the imp of the perverse" to describe the temptation to do the wrong thing simply because you could, and for many people the imp had become more persuasive.

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

I believe the primordial humans made a choice. They found themselves in a world full of possibilities but with no guidance as to what to do.

A dog may understand dozens of commands, but it will never do anything but bark.

La loro distaccata crudeltà, la loro istintiva capacità di individuare il punto debole nell'armatura emotiva di una vittima, il modo in cui la loro stessa amicizia veniva rafforzata dal sadismo: riconobbe questi come esempi di un comportamento umano, non divino.

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

Nobody needs to control or be controlled by cues and signals all the time; living creatures are not a bunch of machines.

Without any reinforcement—except that of seeing his peers hunt—he had learned every detail of flushing and retrieving and hadn't been spooked in the least by the report of the gun.

When it comes to making art, our intuition is often light-years ahead of our intellect.

Generally when a man in uniform has something unusual brought to his attention, his instinct is to stop it.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

I just don't have that natural instinct to be able to let my guard down and start speaking to people. I never have - I've always been a bit socially awkward, even with people I've known for a long time.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

Mysticism, in the narrow sense, implies a specific experience which is foreign to most poets and most men, but on the other hand, it represents an instinct which is a human sine qua non.

All animals exhibit innate behaviors in response to specific sensory stimuli that are likely to result from the activation of developmentally programmed circuits.

When you change, you change with what you got. What I got is my speed. I got a little bit of my instinct and flair.

I've always had the speed, but the experience comes along naturally.

What I am interested in with birds, just as I am with spiders or monkeys, is what they do and why they do it.

I'm able to be able to achieve certain things that others aren't - whether it's a reaction time or the idea of a coffee that's about to be spilled and I'm able to grab it before anyone else or whatever it is.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.