Animal Quote by Anthony John Patrick Kenny

“With most animals, as with man, the alertness of the senses diminishes after years of work, after domestic habits and progress of culture.”

— Alexander von Humboldt

We're not good at noticing slow, steady changes in our environments, our senses are not very acute compared to those of many animals, and…

— Dale Jamieson

Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

— David Abram

Horses do sense things way before people.

— Steven Knight

We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct…

— Cristian Machado

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

“Animals do not possess this ability. We call it “self-awareness” or the ability to think about your very thought process.”

— Stephen R. Covey

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but the horses have most of it.

— Anonymous

What differentiates us from animals is the fact that we can listen to other people's dreams, fears, joys, sorrows, desires and defeats - and…

— Henning Mankell

I see several animals that live so entire and perfect a life, some without sight, others without hearing: who knows whether to us also…

— Michel de Montaigne

The consciousness of the animal begins to change when it interacts with a human who's gone beyond thinking. It's not only the animals assisting…

— Eckhart Tolle

When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of…

— Edward Thorndike