Affection Quote by Joost Meerloo

“Human beings are the most successful of animals because of their capability to learn, and an abused animal learns very quickly to defend itself.…

— Brad Thor

Years of cultural programming have taught us to love some animals while eating others, when in all reality, all animals are sentient beings with…

— Kat Von D

Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human…

— James Paul Gee

“The best dog training was based on the reward system. You did not punish a dog for doing wrong, you rewarded the dog for…

— Robert Crais

[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child,…

— Dalai Lama

God gave unto the Animals A wisdom past our power to see: Each knows innately how to live, Which we must learn laboriously.

— Margaret Atwood

Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that…

— Mark Twain

“If there is anything unique about the human animal, it is that it has the ability to grow knowledge at an accelerating rate while…

— John Gray

Learned behaviors have replaced the biologically given ones.

— Margaret Mead

“Proof of social cognition means that dogs aren’t just Pavlovian learning machines. It means that dogs are sentient beings, and this has startling consequences…

— Gregory Berns

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some…

— Leo Buscaglia

Some people could learn from dogs! After all, they are more patient, faithful, loyal and loving, forgiving and compassionate than most humans.

— Nishan Panwar