Caring is a reflex...You live, you help.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you…

— Ram Dass

It is a virtual reflex for governments to plead security concerns when they undertake any controversial action, often as a pretext for something else.

— Noam Chomsky

Too often our Washington reflex is to discover a problem and then throw money at it, hoping it will somehow go away.

— Kenneth Keating

Our giving is but a reflex of God's giving.

— Sam Storms

It's human nature to quit when it hurts. But it's that reflex that creates scarcity.

— Seth Godin

It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

— Etgar Keret

Joy is the reflex of terror.

— Victor Hugo

Thought reflexes get conditioned very strongly, and they are very hard to change. And the also interfere. A reflex may connect to the endorphins…

— David Bohm

What human beings consciously wish is often quite at variance with the results their reflex patterns automatically create for them.

— Timothy Leary

Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn't 'second nature,' it is 'first nature.'

— Declan Donnellan

It's a reflex. Hear a bell, get food. See an undead, throw a knife. Same thing, really.

— Ilona Andrews

Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in evolving. Evolutionary…

— Jo Nesbo

For all healing, mental or material, is attuning each atom of the body, each reflex of the brain forces, to the awareness of the…

— Edgar Cayce

Mind is the antithesis of reflex, and only mind could discover mind

— R. Buckminster Fuller

If we denote excitation as an end-effect by the sign plus (+), and inhibition as end-effect by the sign minus (-), such a reflex…

— Charles Scott Sherrington