Cats Quote by Hippolyte Taine

I've met many thinkers and many cats, but the wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

— Hippolyte Taine

“The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”

— Hippolyte Taine

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

— Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion. And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to…

— Vera Nazarian

Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.

— Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

— Mark Twain

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

— Eugene Ionesco

...But nature does not say that cats are more valuable than mice; nature makes no remark on the subject. She does not even say…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.

— Rebecca West

The cat is such a perfect symbol of beauty and superiority that is seems scarcely possible for any true aesthete and civilized cynic to…

— H. P. Lovecraft

“We think the cat superior because we have (or most of us have) a particular philosophy to the effect that life is better than…

— G.K. Chesterton

“The Fur Person learned then and there that it is better to be a philosopher than to be a king and that, all things…

— May Sarton