Quotes About Instinct

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

Without game, men prey on each other.

If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

A gun is like breath to a drowning man--it has to be drawn in haste.

If I saw a man and I was attracted… I would follow through with it.

A good reliable set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Actually men are closer to having the ability to act egoistic when it comes to a crisis situation.

The whelp of a wolf must prove a wolf at last, notwithstanding he may be brought up by a man.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

What proposition is there respecting human nature which is absolutely and universally true? We know of only one,--and that is not only true, but identical,--that men always act from self-interest.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

It is scarcely possible to doubt that the love of man has become instinctive in the dog.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

Men have a psychological need to show off their courage and strength. When he sees you talking to another guy, that instinct kicks in and he jumps to protect you and prove he's worthy of your love.

Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.

Man is a perpetually wanting animal.

I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

Since women are better at producing babies, presumably Nature has given men some talent to compensate. But for the moment I can't think of it.

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.