Instinct Quotes

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There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
The religious urge in man is not a mere passing phase in the history of his spiritual development, but the ultimate source of all his… — Muhammad Asad
But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other… — Nikola Tesla
The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat on the basis of instinct.… — Rollo May
...I believe there exists, & I feel within me, an instinct for the truth, or knowledge or discovery, of something of the same nature as… — Charles Darwin
His [Thomas Edison] method was inefficient in the extreme, for an immense ground had to be covered to get anything at all unless blind chance… — Nikola Tesla
Science had better not free the minds of men too much, before it has tamed their instincts. — Jean Rostand
Psychogenesis has led to man. Now it effaces itself, relieved or absorbed by another and a higher function-the engendering and subsequent development of the mind,… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the higher mammalia bordering… — Charles Lyell
Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none. — Francis Bacon
How so many absurd rules of conduct, as well as so many absurd religious beliefs, have originated, we do not know; nor how it is… — Charles Darwin
The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the… — Sigmund Freud
Leaders are people who can discern the inevitable and act accordingly. When people talk about business acumen, discernment is a big part of it. It's… — Donald Trump
I don't think I would use a gun, but who knows what a person would do in certain circumstances? My instincts are that I don't… — David Icke
Love what you do. Believe in your instincts. And you'd better be able to pick yourself up and brush yourself off every day. — Mario Andretti
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
He is the wise man who has by perfect living gained the instinct of rightness by which he guides himself, whether in thought or action,… — Nilakanta Sri Ram
Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently… — Franz Joseph Gall
All the learning in the world cannot replace instinct. — Robert Ley

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