Quotes About Instinct

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.

The wolf never kills for fun, which is probably one of the main differences distinguishing him from man.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

Man is an animal which, alone among the animals, refuses to be satisfied by the fulfillment of animal desires.

Instinct guides the animal better than the man. In the animal it is pure, in man it is led astray by his reason and intelligence.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

A hungry man can't see right or wrong. He just sees food.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

When security comes, every man for himself

Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

You can see the true heart of a man when you're out in the woods with a weapon

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something

the insects here see you as a big slab of animated but not very well defended food. The ability to move, far from being a deterrent, serves as an unforgeable guarantee of freshness.

A honeybee cruising for nectar is pretty despite its implicit threat, but the same behavior in a hornet three times larger makes one glance about for some handy swatting material.