Quotes About Animal Instincts

#1. If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.

Karen Salmansohn

#2. Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible, dependable, and content.

Lauren Oliver

#3. I've always felt that if I examine myself too much, I'll find out what I know and don't know, and I'll burst the bubble. I've gotten so lucky relying on my animal instincts, I'd rather keep a little bit of the animal alive.

Clint Eastwood

#4. I was now privy to how a calm, average , peace-loving individual can suddenly get infected with a special kind of crazy. Higher reasoning is replaced with killer animal instincts.

Dan Skinner

#5. Our intellect, our awareness, and our consciousness is the most powerful form of life on this planet. It's totally worthwhile. If our animal instincts stopped, we would die. We don't think about it, but if your consciousness were responsible for all of your bodily functions, you would die.

James McAvoy

#6. I can feel the sickening fear inside of me subside as my instincts take over. Inside of me are animal instincts. They were born in a world I wasn't. They take over when I need them to. They've taught me how to survive. I have learned it is the most important part of the world I live in.

Tara Brown

#7. Optimism has always been an undeclared policy of human culture - one that grew out of our animal instincts to survive and reproduce - rather than an articulated body of thought.

Thomas Ligotti

#8. A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Be a good animal, true to your animal instincts.

D.H. Lawrence

#10. When my animal instincts desire the forbidden, I feel pleasure in seeking them without constrictions placed by laws, worldly or religious

Rochelle Magee

#11. Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.

Albert Einstein

#12. The man had asked, Why do you want sheep? The wool? Meat? Monroe's answer had been, For the atmosphere.

Charles Frazier

#13. I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time.

Alan Rickman

#14. Death looked up angirly, and found himself staring into eyes that were black as the inside of a cat and full of distant stars that had no counterpart among the familiar constellations of the realtime universe.

Terry Pratchett

#15. Any people has a right to self-determination, and now in Europe the process of diluting national sovereignty in the framework of a united Europe is more accepted.

Vladimir Putin

#16. Everyone gets scared, Princess. Even brave men sometimes run the first time they see battle. In armies, that's why there's so much training. The ones who hold aren't the courageous ones, they're the well-trained ones. We have instincts like any other animal.

Brandon Sanderson

#17. Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

Dan Mathews

#18. But there are thoughts we think in the forward part of our brains, and then there are those whose origins are much deeper, in the animal part, the part that remembers the terrors of the open savanna at night, the oldest part that was there before the primordial voice that spoke the words I AM.

Rick Yancey

#19. What do I want from this life? What makes you happy is not enough. All the things that satisfy our instincts only satisfy the animal in us. I want more. I want to look up to myself and when I die, I want to smile because of the things I have done, not cry for the things I haven't done.

Tom Hurndall

#20. Be a good animal,true to your instincts.

D.H. Lawrence

#21. Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Erving Goffman

#22. You can often give a better description of the fight between people, the essentials of it, by means of fantastic animals, the simple, primitive, naked instincts, than by depicting a specific situation. It is not the human animal we should describe, but ourselves as human animals.

Asger Jorn

#23. It is absurd to talk of one animal being higher than another ... we consider those, where the intellectual faculties most developed as the highest. - A bee doubtless would [use] ... instincts as a criteria.

Charles Darwin

#24. Only animals have to satisfy instincts! Surely your aims are somewhat higher than theirs! Than monkeys! Pigs!

Tennessee Williams

#25. Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.

Ludwig Von Mises

#26. Mr. Hitchcock taught me everything about cinema. It was thanks to him that I understood that murder scenes should be shot like love scenes and love scenes like murder scenes.

Grace Kelly

#27. Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

Charlie Chaplin

#28. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.

Alex Flinn

#29. We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

Horace