Animal Quote by Sharon Gannon

The case for exploiting animals for food, clothing and entertainment often relies on our superior intelligence, language and self-awareness: the rights of the superior…

— Michael Shermer

“What makes you think human beings are sentient and aware? There's no evidence for it. Human beings never think for themselves, they find it…

— Michael Crichton

“Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their ‘beliefs.’ The reason is that beliefs…

— Michael Crichton

“I often think a person’s consciousness can grow more from gaining an insight into animals’ true essence than animals’ consciousness can grow from spending…

— Gordon Smith

“It is not enough that you understand in what ignorance man and beast live; you must also have and acquire the will to ignorance.…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Because we have viewed other animals through the myopic lens of our self-importance, we have misperceived who and what they are. Because we have…

— Tom Regan

Our knowledge and understanding of nonhuman animals is polluted far more than we acknowledge by our belief in our own superiority, our unrecognized cultural…

— Will Tuttle

You don't want to be an animal, you want to observe your own animal functions, so as to get a mental thrill out of…

— D. H. Lawrence

“I think human consciousness is a tragic misstep in human evolution. We became too self aware; nature created an aspect of nature separate from…

— Rustin Cohle

It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is…

— Nikola Tesla

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

— Richard Bach