Animal Quote by John Godfrey Saxe

The Buddhists have a story about blind men trying to describe an elephant by feeling it's various parts, and each describes the elephant according…

— Kent Nerburn

“The blind men before the elephant are thus, in their way, like astrobiologists or like scientists in any new field at the frontiers of…

— Rob Dunn

“The six elephants stood, roped each by the foreleg side by side in the vast thirty-foot tent put up several days since for their…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Some Hindus have an elephant to show. No one here has ever seen an elephant. They bring it at night to a dark room.…

— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

“You see pictures of Buddha and he’s sitting, reclining, at peace. The Hindus have their twelve-armed elephant god, who also seems so content but…

— Dave Eggers

“Many more villagers, who have seen an elephant for the first time in their lives, give absurd exaggerations regarding his size, weight, and height.…

— Nuruddin Farah

I have the feeling that I've seen everything, but failed to notice the elephants.

— Anton Chekhov

So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant…

— John McQuiston II

Elephants are so wise and so funny and so endangered and so intelligent. I just think there is a lot to learn from them.

— Gloria Steinem

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in…

— Swami Vivekananda

One particular aspect of Siddhartha’s revelation of the outside world has always struck me. Quite possibly he lived his first thirty years without any…

— Daniel Tammet

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so…

— Anonymous