Alone Quote by John Burroughs

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

— Stephen R. Covey

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree…

— Jeffrey Kluger

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent…

— Elizabeth Aston

Thinking clearly and effectively is the greatest asset of any human being. We are constantly reminded that the one superiority that man has over…

— Harry Lorayne

We all have brains and we're all really smart people, but the underlying reality is that we're really just animals and sometimes animal instinct…

— Cristian Machado

Impartial observers from other planets would consider ours an utterly bizarre enclave if it were populated by birds, defined as flying animals, that nevertheless…

— Steve Allen

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

It's very likely that most mammals have consciousness, and probably birds, too.

— Richard Dawkins

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

— David Abram

“Very few animals on earth have the ability to think cogent thoughts to begin with, but we humans have the luxury of being able…

— Mark Manson

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

Most birds are geniuses. We had one that became a pet; he learned to talk, use tools and solve problems.

— Jean Craighead George