Action Quote by George Stillman Hillard

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

— Margaret Oliphant

“Once upon a time, in a faraway land, four blind wise men were asked to describe the true nature of an elephant. Each took…

— Anonymous

“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be.…

— Ambrose Bierce

“In dim ways he recognized in man the animal that had fought itself to primacy over the other animals of the Wild. Not alone…

— Jack London

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

— Jean Kerr

Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.

— James Tiptree Jr

Man is the only animal for whom his own stupid existence is a problem which he has to try in vain to solve.

— William C. Brown

Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the…

— John Muir

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is…

— Charlie Chaplin

Man is the only animal who does not feel at home in nature, who can feel evicted from paradise, the only animal for whom…

— Erich Fromm