Quotes About Animals Intelligence

#1. Do dogs feel for humans something akin to religious ecstasy? What other strong or subtle emotions are felt by animals that do not communicate with us?

Carl Sagan

#2. Animals understand your love and instinct without any words. Often times, humans understand neither you nor your love.

Debasish Mridha

#3. One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.

D. A. Pennebaker

#4. If human beings are immortal, so are animals. If matter has the ability to remember, it also has the ability to think.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

Edward Thorndike

#6. So in regard to mental qualities, their transmission is manifest in our dogs, horses and other domestic animals. Besides special tastes and habits, general intelligence, courage, bad and good tempers. etc., are certainly transmitted.

Charles Darwin

#7. With land-roaming animals, I've just read so much about the sophistication of their emotional lives and their intelligence and the way they process information that betrays a greater intelligence.

Bryan Fuller

#8. I think there's a supreme power behind the whole thing, an intelligence. Look at all of the instincts of nature, both animals and plants, the very ingenious ways they survive. If you cut yourself, you don't have to think about it.

Clyde Tombaugh

#9. There is no intelligence where there is no change and no need of change. Only those animals partake of intelligence that have to meet a huge variety of needs and dangers.

H.G.Wells

#10. I was so moved by the intelligence,sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on Babe that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian.

James Cromwell

#11. Man is the most intelligent of the animals - and the most silly.

Diogenes

#12. If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

Jack Norris

#13. I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

Morarji Desai

#14. Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Edward Thorndike

#15. A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their composition. The mind in beast and bird, as in man, is the main thing.

William Henry Hudson

#16. To approach animals in their most natural, native settings. I have to understand the mysteries of their behavior. With careful preparation, I can show the animal in its best light, demonstrating its beauty, strength and intelligence.

Paul Nicklen

#17. 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

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

Will Cuppy

#19. 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 being trump those of the inferior.

Michael Shermer

#20. Last year I gave several lectures on "Intelligence and Musicality among Animals" ... Today I am going to speak to you about "Intelligence and Musicality among Critics" ... The subject is much the same, with some modifications, of course.

Erik Satie

#21. What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.

Chanctetinyea J.J. Ouellette

#22. Because we tend to equate intelligence with language
particularly the ability to use language to think and communicate abstractions
it is natural to conclude that animals are, on the whole, a lot less intelligent than we are.

Linda Bender

#23. Our difficulties in understanding or effectuating
communication with other animals may arise from our reluctance to grasp unfamiliar ways of dealing with the world.

Carl Sagan

#24. The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.

Pythagoras

#25. Art owes its origin to Nature herself ... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.

Giorgio Vasari

#26. If we look straight and deep into a chimpanzee's eyes, an intelligent self-assured personality looks back at us. If they are animals, what must we be?

Frans De Waal

#27. In addition to Ameslan, chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates are being taught a variety of other gestural languages. And it is just this transition from tongue to hand that has permitted humans to regain the ability-lost, according to Josephus, since Eden-to communicate with the animals.

Carl Sagan

#28. Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand.

Debasish Mridha

#29. I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Hippolyte Taine

#30. Our sense of community and compassionate intelligence must be extended to all life forms, plants, animals, rocks, rivers, and human beings. This is the story of our past and it will be the story of our future.

Terry Tempest Williams

#31. Every society which allows violence against animals secretly becomes a violent society.

Debasish Mridha

#32. in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent.

Milton William Cooper