Quotes about Instinct
You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.
- Albert Einstein
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
- Edmund Burke
Where the banana grows man is sensual and cruel.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.
- James Freeman Clarke
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.
- Victor Hugo
What least makes a mother is biology.
- Oprah Winfrey
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
- CS Lewis
Nature hates calculators.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.
- Alexander Hamilton
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson