Quotes about Instinct

The wolf stands on its hind legs, places its forelegs on the scientist's shoulders, and places its jaws around the scientist's head. This is just the wolf's way of being friendly. If you're an animal who doesn't know how to talk, a very clear signal is communicated: "See my teeth? Feel them? I could hurt you, I really could. But I won't. I like you.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

Such, gentlemen, is the inflexibility of sea-usages and the instinctive love of neatness in seamen; some of whom would not willingly drown without first washing their faces.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

A rabbit, it has been said, can outrun a lion. But the rabbit's great fear of the lion paralyzes it, making it easy for the lion to catch and consume it.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

A dog can't think that much about what he's doing, he just does what feels right.

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

I would argue that masturbation is the human animal's most important adaptation. The very cornerstone of our technological civilization.

It's our hearts that tell us the truth of things, honey, and my heart has never betrayed me. Not ever.