Quotes About Instinct

Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.

When hunting a lion it is wise to remind yourself that you too are being hunted.

In the end, having no compass for his desires, he yielded to his nature.

I am selfish by habit, but sacrificial by nature. Therefore, I'd be wise to develop the habit of following my nature.

The man stood alone by the hive. On impulse he put his palm against the wood, as if feeling for a pulse.

But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable.

Intelligence rarely trumps human nature.

Listen to your instinct. It is your greatest treasure. Your beauty in the outside reflects your inner beauty.

If a man couldn't control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

If you are in doubt about what's balanced, look to the natural world. Animals know the right paths.

Savage bears keep at peace with one another. [Lat., Saevis inter se convenit ursis.]

Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies...that which to us is merely an evening's meal, but to them is life itself.

Ever consider what pets must think of us? I mean, here we come back from a grocery store with the most amazing haul - chicken, pork, half a cow. They must think we're the greatest hunters on earth!

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties.

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

Many cats are the death of the mouse.

Anyone who's ever had the misfortune of seeing me interact with house pets knows I have a wickedly strong paternal instinct bordering on the maternal.

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

Many dog owners believe that as much as 60 percent of their pet's brain is set aside solely to demonstrate applications of the verb "to eat"-in both the active and passive forms.

The dog which remembers only to bark and not to bite, and is led through the streets as a lady's pet, is only a degenerate wolf.

I'm human, you're human. So they said, but inside we're all animals.

Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.