Animal Quote by Edward Thorndike

The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife…

— Karl Marx

“If the confident animal coming toward us had a mind like ours, the change in him would startle us. But to him his own…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Stephen R. Covey

Animals have personalities like people and must be studied.

— Walt Disney

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

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

— Mitta Xinindlu

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these…

— Thomas Malthus

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…

— Hilary Kornblith

“Living, in the case of animals, thus means getting on, and any ability, whether physical or intellectual, is of importance to the extent that…

— Frank Morton McMurry

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

“I often think a person’s consciousness can grow more from gaining an insight into animals’ true essence than animals’ consciousness can grow from spending…

— Gordon Smith

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

— David Abram