Quotes About Instinct

The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

When you're on screen with Mads, there's some real fireworks because your character is his intellectual equal. In a way, maybe your character has an instinct as to who this man really is.

Pleasure and pain are the only springs of action in man, and always will be.

Your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

Desire is the very essence of man

As soon as my mother saw my father, she said, "Oh! I think I'm gonna marry that man." That's the reason I've been married four times, because I think it's that easy ... it really is not.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

Probably nature itself gave man the ability to lie so that in difficult and tense moments he could protect his nest, just as do the vixen and wild duck.

In every man there is an instinctive and passionate reaction if his person or liberty is attacked.

Man is not free to refuse to do the thing which gives him more pleasure than any other conceivable action.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.

There is a great deal of human nature in man.

A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

Can freedom become a burden, too heavy for man to bear, something he tries to escape from?..Is there not also, perhaps, besides an innate desire for freedom, an instinctive wish for submission?

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.