Absent Quote by Don Van Vliet Download Open image “The largest living land mammal is the absent mind.” — Don Van Vliet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Absent Inspirational Land Life Mammals Mind Psychology
The largest land animal is the elephant, and it is the nearest to man in intelligence: it understands the language of its country and obeys orders, remembers duties that it has been taught, is pleased by affection and by marks of honour, nay more it possesses virtues rare even in man, honesty, wisdom, justice, also respect for the stars and… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share
It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. — David Abram Copy Share Image
Bonobos may have a brain that's a third the size of ours, but they're remarkably intelligent. — Claudine Andre Copy Share Image
Do you know what else thinks? Elephants. Thats right elephants. You know they have the largest brain in the animal kingdom. — Bagwell (from Prisom Break Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Elephants have the largest brains of any mammal on the face of the Earth. They are creative, altruistic and kind. — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless rarely or never actually flew. They would also be perplexed if they encountered in our seas, lakes, rivers, and ponds, creatures defined as swimmers that never did any swimming. But they would be even more surprised… — Steve Allen Copy Share
The dolphins and whales have a brain that is actually bigger in proportion to their size than we do. They are very complex. They… — Owsley Stanley Copy Share Image
“It amazes me how people can close their minds off to the size of the Universe. With billions of stars, millions of galaxies, and… — Coriander Woodruff Copy Share Image
I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented to what… — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
I think that men has the most highly developed intelligence. I think men get so intelligent that they're stupid. — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
It makes me itch to think of myself as Captain Beefheart. I don't even have a boat. — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs. — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the opinions of the followers who conform without thinking things through, they are often taken at face value. The persistent minority forces the others to process the relevant information… — Anonymous Copy Share
In a general way, the literature of the twentieth century is essentially psychological; and psychology consists of describing states of the soul by displaying… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars…… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share
The interesting thing about an absent father is, for a child, you don't know he's absent. You just think he's... tardy. — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
For my own part, I would rather be in company with a dead man than with an absent one; for if the dead man… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are… — Socrates Copy Share Image
“You may not appreciate the presence of good health, but you will definitely regret the absence of good health, because health is happiness.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious… — Symeon the New Theologian Copy Share Image
It's Simon, he's missing." Ahh." said Magnus delicately "Missing what exactly?" Missing!" Jace repeated "As in gone, absent, notable for his lack of presence,… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy.… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
