Animal Quote by C. S. Lewis

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out…

— Gretchen Rubin

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

— Marcus Aurelius

“The topic of instincts is tough to dissect. But one can gain an understanding by observing the behaviour of animals.”

— Mitta Xinindlu

It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

“thus animals without symbolic language may lack the ability humans have to deliberately think about the past and imagine the future.”

— David Christian

“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.”

— John N. Gray

“while the modern, human animal is capable of deep thought and, like its mammalian forebears, can nurture and play, it also is capable of…

— Edwin H Friedman

The human animal cannot be trusted for anything good except en masse. The combined thought and action of the whole people of any race,…

— Harry S Truman

Our instinctual understanding of reality is the same as most other animals.

— Robert Lanza

We are animals and we are made in this way and this is how we behave. I'm just kind of fascinated by how we…

— T.C. Boyle

“It seems improbable, unless one knows how obstinately, purposefully and unerringly any stricken animal will find its way to the same place where in…

— Georgi Vladimov