#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.”

“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”

“Self love is the instrument of our preservation.”

“I cannot remember my past, my nose, or the colour of my eyes, or what my general opinion of myself is. Only in moments of emergency, at a crossing, at a kerb, the wish to preserve my body springs out and seizes me and stops me , here, before this omnibus. We insist, it seems, on living. Then again, indifference descends.”

“The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.”

“In a game like football, where you have very little time to decide what you are going to do, you have to react almost instinctively, naturally.”

“We denote this primary wisdom as Intuition, whilst all later teachings are tuitions.”

“When I was 9 or 10, I used to get all the lead roles because I was the tallest person. But my interest in music soon drew me to country music. I was infatuated with the sound, with the storytelling. I could relate to it. I can't really tell you why. With me, it was just instinctual.”

“Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.”

“Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.”

“Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first.”

“The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things.”

“A few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us”

“In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep.”

“First be a good animal.”

“We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.”

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”

“I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.”

“If you give a meaning to certain things in my paintings it may be very true, but it is not my idea to give this meaning. What ideas and conclusions you have got I obtained too, but instinctively, unconsciously. I make the painting for the painting. I paint the objects for what they are.”

“If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.”

“One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.”

“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.”

“Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.”

“The savage in man is never quite eradicated.”