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If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

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

Reason is the servant of instinct.

I love acting and I still want to do it, but I've such an instinct for directing, it's something that comes naturally to me. It's why I'm here on this planet.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.

Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

How can you defy fear? Fear is a human instinct, just like hunger. Whether you like it or not, you become hungry. Similarly with fear. But I have learned to train myself to live with this fear.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

My primary instinct as an actor is not the big transformation. It's thrilling if a performer can do that well, but that's not me. Often with actors, it's a case of witnessing a big party piece but wondering afterwards, where's the substance?

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct.

Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

It's a perfectly human instinct to want to be near water.