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James Russell Lowell quotesIt is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves.
Albert Einstein quotesIf men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery.
Oliver Wendell Holmes quotesA goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Friedrich Nietzsche quotesInstinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes.
Henry David Thoreau quotesWhat is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
Joseph Addison quotesThere is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotesA few strong instincts and a few plain rules suffice us.