Quotes about Instinct

A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn.

The mother of any species is loving and tender toward her young but fiercely protective whenever they are threatened. What has happened to the female of our species?

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes; chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

the Chief Good we feel instinctively must be something which is our own, and not easily to be taken from us.

Mankind now faces its ultimate emergency. In such a moment of crisis, is it not right for us to call upon the instinct that has always ensured our survival in the past? A poet in an earlier, almost equally troubled age put it better than I can ever hope to do: WE MUST LOVE ONE ANOTHER OR DIE.

What can we know? What are we all? Poor silly half-brained things peering out at the infinite, with the aspirations of angels and the instinct of beasts.

Everything is in the timing, I think. I see the ball earlier than the others so maybe that's why I have a good return.

By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural instinct, every lord abhors slavery; therefore, by the law of charity, he is bound not to impose slavery on any brother in Christ.