Animal Quote by Joseph Addison

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

— Charles Darwin

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

— F. H. Bradley

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.

— Neal Bascomb

Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

— Agatha Christie

Instinct is so interesting to me, because the way I see instinct is it's a practice at first, and then it eventually becomes natural,…

— Naomi Ackie

It has been said that metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

— Delphine de Girardin

An instinct is a blind tendency to some mode of action, independent of any consideration, on the part of the agent, of the end…

— Richard Whately

In the absence of certainty, instinct is all you can follow.

— Jonathan Cainer

We lost this animal instinct that we used to have. We use a very low percentage of our instinct.

— Marion Cotillard

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

— Henri Bergson