Quotes About Instinct

Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.

The heart knows what it feels.

Follow your heart.

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

My conservatory is in the streets. My intelligence is instinct.

When your intelligence don't tell you something ain't right, your conscience gives you a tap you on the shoulder and says 'Hold on'. If it don't, you're a snake.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I noticed at once that Depp had a dangerously energized intelligence . . . He was a suave little brute, but he had a wicked sense of humor and a rare instinct for escalation.

I see fear as a sign of intelligence, of preservation.

The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

Instinct perfected is a faculty of using and even constructing organized instruments; intelligence perfected is the faculty of making and using unorganized instruments.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

Intelligence in the service of poor instinct is really dangerous.

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill anyone and anything that gets in his way.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

If an animal does something, we call it instinct. If we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

I don't bless people because I don't wanna. I do it because that's what kind of person I am. It's almost like i can't resist." ? Sage Canny

Let's play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

They say your first reaction is the truest. They say your original thought, your initial gut feeling, is always the correct course of action.

A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

Is it a manly game," he asked, for while men are ruled by their loins, those loins have two small brains each no larger than an olive and thus do not think well.