Animal Quote by Alexander von Humboldt

Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign…

— Anonymous

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Animals share with us the privilege of having a soul.

— Pythagoras

Unless we have courage to recognize cruelty for what it is-whether its victim is human or animal-we cannot expect things to be much better…

— Rachel Carson

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited…

— Albert Schweitzer

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

— George Bernard Shaw

The amount of knowledge which we can justify from evidence directly available to us can never be large. The overwhelming proportion of our factual…

— Michael Polanyi

“Russell commented that the development of such gifted individuals (referring to polymaths) required a childhood period in which there was little or no pressure…

— Carl Sagan

Dark clouds become heaven's flowers when kissed by light.

— Rabindranath Tagore

We ought not to be embarrassed of appreciating the truth and of obtaining it wherever it comes from, even if it comes from races…

— Al-Kindi

Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest.

— Leonardo da Vinci

Having a good idea is one thing, but persuading other people to buy it is quite another. Good inventors are polymaths: they think with…

— James Dyson

To present a whole world that doesn’t exist and make it seem real, we have to more or less pretend we’re polymaths. That’s just…

— William Gibson

Women are not allowed to be polymaths; we're only allowed to do single maths.

— Sandi Toksvig

We should make the poor uncomfortable and kick them out of poverty.

— Benjamin Franklin