Any Quote by Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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

— Diogenes

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes…

— Plato

While some animals exhibit individual powers in higher perfection, man stands for their superior, not only in combining in his own body all the…

— George Combe

“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

Man has come to dominate the planet thanks to two essential traits. One is intelligence. The other has been the absolute willingness to kill…

— Stephen King

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

— Edward Thorndike

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for…

— Henri Bergson

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

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has…

— Ayn Rand

Man's greatness does not consist in being different from the animals that share the earth with him, but in being...conscious of things of which…

— Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald

No human is more intelligent than the other...just more adept at certain areas of intelligence.

— Siddharth Katragadda

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or…

— Abraham Myerson