Quotes About Instinct

Follow your inclination. It will take you to thoughts you'd never know you'd had

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said Batter up,I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.

Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way.

Instinct is an animal faculty, independent of instruction and reasoning, but far inferior to intuition, which is a grace unique to humanity.

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow.

Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass.

But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain.

Intuition was the highest form of knowledge, antecedent to all teaching, not reliant on reasoning.

taut. She looked out of the windows, left and right—and her tail began to swish.

Intuition is the highest form of knowledge.

telepathy," had been part of that fund of knowledge called "instinct.

was learned from experience, what was intuitively known, and matters of instinct coded in the genes.

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But the rebellious primitive that lived in the back of every human brain was drawn to what the forebrain deemed too dark for civilized consideration, and the eye sometimes turned traitor.

Intuition alone determined for her what the patterns meant and what they suggested she should do. To her way of thinking, intuition was a word for perceptions that were received on a level far below the subconscious. Intuition was seeing with the soul.

Earth's creatures other than humankind. Their lives are short and hard and ever shadowed by threat, and they endure periods of hunger when in their foraging they find nothing, and they persevere through sickness without understanding what it is they suffer, and they have seen others devoured by something bigger with sharper teeth. Yet in spite of all they have to fear, they sleep as if they are safe when unconscious, and they wake to each new day with enthusiasm.

He believed in only five things—violence, sex, money, snakes, and intuition—and he believed in them profoundly, passionately.

Membela diri adalah salah satu dorongan yang paling kuat yang diberikan Tuhan kepada kita. Kita diciptakan untuk bertahan hidup, walaupun jika kita harus membunuh seseorang dalam prosesnya. Tina

didn't come for a loan," Mitch assured him. "In every species of animal, the primary obligation of parents is to teach self-sufficiency to their offspring. The prey must learn evasion, and the predator must learn to hunt.

At Stone's direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn't matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the baby rats. They were slower, maybe, but the homing instinct was magnetic, needle to the north.

I act strictly according to the way I feel, my intuition. Miss Melba Obrenski

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. —Anaïs Nin

So soon as passion goes beyond instinct and becomes truly itself, it tends to self self-description, either in order to justify or intensify its being, or else simply in order to keep going.