Instinct Quotes

“For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.”

“I was a coward on instinct.”

“Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

“The smoothest curled courtier in the boudoirs of a palace has an animal nature, rude and aboriginal as a white bear.”

“You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit.”

“Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.”

“The inquiry leads us to that source, at once the essence of genius, of virtue, and of life, which we call Spontaneity or Instinct.”

“You can't think and hit the ball at the same time.”

“If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.”

“How can a you hit and think at the same time?”

“Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”

“Life is one long struggle between conclusions based on abstract ways of conceiving cases, and opposite conclusions prompted by our instinctive perception of them.”

“A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.”

“All our progress is an unfolding, like the vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge, as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. It is vain to hurry it. By trusting it to the end it shall ripen into truth, and you shall know why you believe.”

“Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.”

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

“Mankind's common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.”

“Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.”

“The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.”

“The game is played out of instinct, but everyone on the ice has habits - good and bad. So the key to the game is to exploit the bad habits of your opponent.”

“A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.”

“I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.”

“All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.”

“Her only gift was knowing people almost by instinct, she thought, walking on. If you put her in a room with someone, up went her back like a cat's; or she purred.”