Quotes
Quotes about Instinct
Instinct is action taken in pursuance of a purpose, but without conscious perception of what the purpose is.
Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Instinct is untaught ability.
Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure.
To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a man's last romance.
In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them?
In few, they hurried us aboard a bark, Bore us some leagues to sea; where they prepared A rotten carcass of a butt, not rigged, Nor tackle, sail, nor mast; the very rats Instinctively have quit it.
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
I don't like this new law, because your first instinct when you see a man on the ground is to go down on him
If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.
How instinct varies in the grov'lling swine, Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine! 'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier! Forever sep'rate, yet forever near!
