Animal Quote by Theophrastus

More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if…

— Gertrude Stein

What distinguished man from animals was the human capacity for symbolic thought, the capacity which was inseparable from the development of language in which…

— John Berger

There can be in the eyes of God no distinction between man and man, even as there is no distinction between animal and animal.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles,…

— Osamu Dazai

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

— Jack Sharkey

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals is the means of his support-the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these…

— Thomas Malthus

The most evident difference between man and animals is this: the beast, in as much as it is largely motivated by the senses and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but…

— Oscar Wilde

Man may be defined as the animal that can say ''I,'' that can be aware of himself as a separate entity.

— Erich Fromm

“The question of the position of man, as an animal, has given rise to much disputation, with the result of proving that there is…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

Man is an animal that imagines he is a man.

— Vikrant Parsai

Man is a rational animal—so at least I have been told. … Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim…

— Bertrand Russell