Believe Quote by Yuval Noah Harari

“Only Homo sapiens can discuss things that are not tangible, such as fantasies, legends, myths, deities, and religions. The ability to talk about fiction…

— Read trepreneur

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such…

— Brian Boyd

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

— Emma Mackey

“However, current research in animal cognition, and on protolanguage, protomorality, ritual, and levels of consciousness, has shown that we may not be as unique…

— J. Wentzel van Huyssteen

Humans are, by nature, pattern-seeking, storytelling animals, and we are quite adept at telling stories about patterns whether they exist or not.

— Michael Shermer

It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo…

— Henning Mankell

The uniqueness of humans has been claimed on many grounds, but most often because of our tool-making, culture, language, reason and morality. We have…

— Carl Sagan

I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Humans think in stories, and we try to make sense of the world by telling stories.

— Yuval Noah Harari

I think the primary gift of the animal is offered to writer and non-writer alike; they teach us about love, or attunement, which is…

— C.E. Morgan

We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is…

— Alan Alda

“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.…

— Yuval Noah Harari