Quotes About Instinct

She can tell if her cornbread is done, and all the rest, by their aromas alone—that, or the angels mumble it straight into her ear. It's not the clock that tells you when it's done; the food does.

Predators are color-blind. They only see victims and non-victims.

Predators only understand violence: either accept it or return the favor.

The Rise of Black Wolf

His fingers just flew over the notebook paper of their own accord. The words, just right, continued to flow from Emory, using only instinct and no thought.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

Don't think. Just do it.

I move throughout the world...guided by instinct, connecting through trust, and constantly watching for serendipitous opportunities.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.

Sometimes our heart goes rogue and makes decisions without even telling us or letting us know in advance.

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts. - Ravissante

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with one another. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. You're wise if you don't stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- you'll stick your finger in anything.

The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.

the automatic, fixed-action patterns of these animals work very well the great majority of the time. For example, because only healthy, normal turkey chicks make the peculiar sound of baby turkeys, it makes sense for mother turkeys to respond maternally to that single "cheep-cheep" noise.

ethology—the study of animals in their natural settings.

It should come as no surprise, then, that there is a strong but sad parallel in the human jungle. We too have profiteers who mimic trigger features for our own brand of automatic responding. Unlike the mostly instinctive response sequences of nonhumans, however, our automatic tapes usually develop from psychological principles or stereotypes we have learned to accept.

I have long been moved by Rosa Luxemburg's assertion that 'freedom is always the freedom to think otherwise,' and thus I've been attracted to contrarians, to people whose instinct is to go against the grain of officially accredited views - especially those accredited within their own circle of progressive thinkers. This has its dangers, to be sure.

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child — and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.

It is a perversely human perception that animals in their native habitat are running wild.

Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.