Instinct Quote by Clarence Day Download Open image “Reason is the servant of instinct.” — Clarence Day ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Instinct Intelligence Intuition Reason Servant
If God wanted us to act on instinct, we wouldn't have the power of reason. — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Reason cannot save us, nothing can; but reason can mitigate the cruelty of living. — Philip Rieff Copy Share Image
Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad. — Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The worshipper of energy is too physically energetic to see that he cannot explore certain higher fields until he is still. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Tender are a mother's dreams, But her babe's not what he seems. See him plotting in his mind To grow up some other kind. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly,… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man. Nothing else that he builds ever lasts. Monuments fall; nations perish; civilizations grow… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared-for, on this dark, cooling star:… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
I will follow my instincts, be myself for good or ill, and see what will be the upshot. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone. — Sugar Ray Robinson Copy Share Image
The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
As a kid, in the Runaways, I would see the interviewers start to ask about our personal lives and what we did — and… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
How could they say that they truly loved each other? They had simply grown up together, been children together, and the proximity of it,… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan Copy Share Image
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation. — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
