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Quotes About Instinct

Nature's creative power is far beyond man's instinct of destruction.
~ Jules Verne
We are born to action and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.
~ Charles Horton Cooley
Notice what happens when you follow your intuitive feelings. The result is usually increased energy and power, and a sense of things flowing.
~ Shakti Gawain
Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.
~ Terry Pratchett
It is a common trait of primates to become submissive and even worshipful toward one who has the power to kill them.
~ Orson Scott Card
Dogs have not the power of comparing. A dog will take a small piece of meat as readily as a large, when both are before him.
~ Samuel Johnson
To put it simply, the lizard brain is purely concerned with survival.
~ Stephen Richards
There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'
~ Timothy Keller
We one and all of us have an instinct to pray and this fact constitutes an invitation from God to pray.
~ Charles Sanders Peirce
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.
~ Ted Hughes
Querer a los que tienen el poder es un instinto humano natural. El Maestro
~ William Nicholson
The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals.
~ William Osler
Mothers are hormonally wired to respond to, not ignore, their baby's cries. (Fathers, take note: You can't argue with biology!)
~ William Sears
The very ratsInstinctively have quit it.
~ William Shakespeare
The wren goes to 't, and the small gilded flyDoes lecher in my sight.Let copulation thrive.
~ William Shakespeare
O! the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!
~ William Shakespeare
He wants the natural touch.
~ William Shakespeare
There's something tells me, but it is not love,I would not lose you; and you know yourself,Hate counsels not in such a quality.
~ William Shakespeare
You and I and everybody in show business and the entertainment industry fly by the seat of our pants. We don't know quite what is going to happen.
~ William Shatner
man would when he heard the whisper of a bullet
~ William W. Johnstone
The happy Warrior... is he... who, with a natural instinct to discern what knowledge can perform, is diligent to learn; abides by this resolve, and stops not there, but makes his moral being his prime care.
~ William Wordsworth
That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit.
~ Willie Mays