Quotes About Instinct

Nature is your friend; it helps you to win. Your enemy will have unnatural movement, therefore you will be able to know what he is going to do before he does it.

In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.

I think that sexuality is the part of human beings that is closest to nature. And nature is dangerous somehow, yes, if you put nature against civilisation, nature is definitely a threat.

Grief is nature's most powerful aphrodisiac.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

Habits form a second nature.

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature

Nature gives liberty even to dumb animals.

It is in human nature to relax, when not compelled by personal advantage or disadvantage.

For man is by nature an artist.

Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments.

Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominate each other.

Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it.

Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Habit is, as it were, a second nature. [Lat., Consuetudo quasi altera natura effici.]