Innate Tendency Quotes

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

Altruism is innate, but it's not instinctual. Everybody's wired for it, but a switch has to be flipped.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

Things always work according to their nature.

Never can custom conquer nature, for she is ever unconquered.

We've been playing games since humanity had civilization - there is something primal about our desire and our ability to play games. It's so deep-seated that it can bypass latter-day cultural norms and biases.

I cannot be more aggressive than my nature makes me,.

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.

I must have been born with a strong attraction toward, and possibly even an aptitude for, doing things on a small scale.

Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind.

We are not made for law, we are made for love.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.

Drive Nature out with a pitchfork, yet she hurries back, And will burst through your foolish contempt, triumphant.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic - I use this metaphor a lot but I'll use it again - it's like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries - it's just what happens with this being, now.

It was an accident, although I've been involved in some kind of theatrical function or other since I was a child - in school, music, athletics. To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves. To my way of thinking, an actor's course is set even before he's out of the cradle.

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

As humans, we have evolved to compete... it is in our genes, and we love to watch a competition.

There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

I have to understand what I'm doing, and action is so simple and easy for me that I'd be foolish to try something different.

What desire can be contrary to nature since it was given to man by nature itself?

Learned or unlearned we all must be scribbling.

... the Power who gave a power, by its mere existence, signifies that it must be brought out towards perfection.