Animals Quote by Tom Regan

“The advance of knowledge deludes us into thinking we are different from other animals, but our history shows that we are not.”

— John N. Gray

“If you don't listen to your animal instincts, you are placing too much importance on knowledge thereby not being wise.”

— Karen Salmansohn

The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

— Victor Hugo

Clearly, animals know more than we think, and think a great deal more than we know.

— Irene Pepperberg

“Human beings, who are almost unique [among animals] in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their…

— Scott Berkun

“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore the unique…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals…

— James Smithson

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

MAN, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably ought to be.

— Ambrose Bierce

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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

“I knew people who never looked beyond the next day. Their circumstances only allowed them to focus on the here and now, which is…

— Tendai Huchu