Quotes about Instinct
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
Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
— Marianne Williamson
Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy…Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.
— Marquis de Sade
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
— John Donne