Cat Quote by Will Cuppy

If an animal does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

— Will Cuppy

Our understanding of what constitutes intelligence is utterly relative. If an aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, for example, all of Western civilization would probably…

— John Robbins

Cats are a standing rebuke to behavioral scientists wanting to know how the minds of animals work. The mind of a cat is an…

— Lewis Thomas

A cat is witty, he has nerve, he knows how to do precisely the right thing at the right moment.

— Henri Poincare

There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct.

— Robert Breault

“Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.”

— Will Cuppy

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.

— Mark Twain

Cats virtually always underestimate human intelligence just as we, perhaps, underestimate theirs.

— Roger Caras

An instinct is an agent which performs blindly and ignorantly a work of intelligence and knowledge.

— Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

Cats aren't cooperative in the same way that other animals are. You can train a dog to act, but you can't train a cat…

— Michael Showalter

Instinct is so interesting to me, because the way I see instinct is it's a practice at first, and then it eventually becomes natural,…

— Naomi Ackie

“Operant conditioning is not confined to deliberate training; it is one way that cats learn how to deal with whatever surroundings they find themselves…

— John Bradshaw