Animals Quote by Edward Thorndike

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

— Walt Disney

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

— Tim Allen

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b)…

— Aristotle

We are concerned by the upward trend in the use of animals in scientific procedures...

— David Rutley

I'm very interested in animal behavior, and the relationship of human beings to other animal behavior.

— Lynne Tillman

[E]volutionists sometimes take as haughty an attitude toward the next level up the conventional ladder of disciplines: the human sciences. They decry the supposed…

— Stephen Jay Gould

There is reason to believe that voluntary activity, more than highly developed intellect, distinguishes humans from the animals which stand closest to them.

— Lev S. Vygotsky

There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language…

— Oscar Wilde

Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place…

— Elizabeth Janeway

To be well used, creatures and places must be used sympathetically, just as they must be known sympathetically to be well known...The "animal scientist"…

— Wendell Berry

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

— Nadine Gordimer

“The relation of the human & animality is not a hierarchical relation, but lateral, an overcoming that does not abolish kinship”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty