Animals Quote by Benjamin Franklin

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

— Benjamin Franklin

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

— Henri Bergson

Animals, or at least those who are conscious and capable of suffering or enjoying their lives, are not things for us to use in…

— Peter Singer

Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

— George Gissing

I'm just an animal guy. I feel like every creature has some purpose, whether I know it or not.

— Brian Degraw

The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct;…

— Immanuel Kant

“Every creature was designed to serve a purpose. Learn from animals for they are there to teach you the way of life. There is…

— Suzy Kassem

Little minds mistake little objects for great ones, and lavish away upon the former that time and attention which only the latterdeserve. To such…

— Lord Chesterfield

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

— Philippe de Commines

The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things.

— Joanna Baillie

Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and…

— Matthew Scully