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Quotes About Instinct

Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man in a cave or in a camp, a nomad, will die with no more estate than the wolf or the horse leaves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.
~ Rashida Jones
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
~ Rebecca West
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
~ Henry David Thoreau
A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose.
~ John Dryden
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~ Phyllis Diller
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
I think motherhood is just about instinct. I remember coming home from the hospital and having no idea what we were doing.
~ Kourtney Kardashian
This heart, my own dear mother, bends, With love's true instinct, back to thee!
~ Thomas Moore
And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.
~ William Gibson, Count Zero
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
~ Samuel Butler
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.
~ Louis Untermeyer
All money nowadays seems to be produced with a natural homing instinct for the Treasury.
~ Prince Philip
I have instinctually thought I could do things in my life, and I followed that up by sometimes putting everything I have at risk - my money, my house - to make a movie.
~ Kevin Costner
Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.
~ Donald Trump
Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.
~ W. H. Auden
Emotions are what drives everyone. You get up in the morning and go do something because the emotion drives you to it.
~ Paul Dalio
What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.
~ Benjamin Spock
Your empathy for other mothers is such a natural instinct and it's such a beautiful thing that we all connect, and we should all help each other.
~ Salma Hayek
There is no greater warrior than a mother protecting her child.
~ N.K. Jemisin
A father's suspicion...' she began. Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.' ~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe