Animal Quote by Jon Stewart

“Certainly on this planet it is not apparent that there are beings more intelligent than humans, although a case can be made for dolphins…

— Carl Sagan

“Because we tend to equate intelligence with language--particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions--it is natural to conclude that animals…

— Linda Bender

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

— Edward Thorndike

Sheep are stupid, and have to be driven. But goats are intelligent, and need to be led.

— Terry Pratchett

If a rabbit defined intelligence the way man does, then the most intelligent animal would be a rabbit, followed by the animal most willing…

— Robert Breault

There are a lot of smart creatures out there. Dolphins, elephants, and whales are smart. And there are some really smart birds. I know…

— Sylvia Earle

Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

— Diogenes

Animals are certainly more sophisticated than we used to think. And we shouldn't lump together animals as a group. Crows and chimps and dogs…

— Alison Gopnik

The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more "intelligent" than…

— Derrick Jensen

Is an animal less or more intelligent because it lives without clothes, central heating, and well, atom bombs ?

— Jim Nollman

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

— Edward Thorndike

For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so muchthe wheel,…

— Anonymous