Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Thorndike

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer

Edward Thorndike

The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.

Edward Thorndike

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.

Edward Thorndike

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

Edward Thorndike

For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.

Edward Thorndike

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

Edward Dahlberg

Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

Edward Bond

First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people.

Edward Bond

Our unconscious is not more animal than our conscious, it is often even more human

Eckhart Tolle

The animals certainly like to be close to humans, especially as humans go through the shift in consciousness.

Eckhart Tolle

For a long time humans probably were in touch on a deeper level with the depths of their being, unconsciously so, the same way an animal or a tree is. Gradually, though, more and more of their identity went into the movement of thought. They identified more and more with the movement of thinking.

Eckhart Tolle

Just watching an animal closely can take you out of your mind and bring you into the present moment, which is where the animal lives all the time - surrendered to life.

Eckhart Tolle

And whenever you feel that essence in another, you also feel it in yourself.

The medical community is preparing to be able to handle the infected people, but the infected animals also have to be taken care of or they will re-infect the people.

Hedy Lamarr

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

Heinrich Heine

Man,--the aristocrat amongst the animals.

Hilaire Belloc

I shoot the Hippopotamus with bullets made of platinum, because if I use the leaden one his hide is sure to flatten em.

Henry Walter Bates

Besides alligators, the only animals to be feared are the poisonous serpents. These are certainly common enough in the forest, but no fatal accident happened during the whole time of my residence.

Henry Ward Beecher

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.

Henry Ward Beecher

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared with those fantasies of taste, of those yearning of the imagination, of those insatiable appetites of intellect, which bewilder a student in a great bookseller's temptation-hall.

Henry Fielding

The same animal which hath the honour to have some part of his flesh eaten at the table of a duke, may perhaps be degraded in another part,and some of his limbs gibbeted, as it were, in the vilest stall in town.

Henry Fielding

There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.

Haruki Murakami

My imagination is a kind of animal. So what I do is keep it alive

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Leaving the complications of the human breakfast-table out of account, in an elemental sense, the egg only exists to produce the chicken. But the chicken does not exist only in order to produce another egg. He may also exist to amuse himself, to praise God, and even to suggest ideas to a French dramatist. Being a conscious life, he is, or may be, valuable in himself.

John Maynard Keynes

The markets are moved by animal spirits, and not by reason.

John Maynard Keynes

Businessmen have a different set of delusions from politicians; and need, therefore, different handling. They are, however, much milder than politicians, at the same time allured and terrified by the glare of publicity....You could do anything you like with them, if you would treat them (even the big ones) not as wolves and tigers, but as domestic animals by nature, even though they have been badly brought up and not trained as you would wish.

John Lothrop Motley

A terrible animal, indeed, is an unbridled woman.

John Lennon

Happiness Is A Warm Gun not about heroin. A gun magazine was sitting there with a smoking gun on the cover and an article that I never read inside called 'Happiness Is a Warm Gun.' I took it right from there. I took it as the terrible idea of just having shot some animal.

John Lancaster Spalding

In giving us dominion over the animal kingdom God has signified His will that we subdue the beast within ourselves.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

Jimmy Buffett

I'd like to be a jellyfish, 'cause jellyfish don't pay rent.

Joanna Noelle Levesque

I'm afraid of animals.

Dave Carter

As we continue to rebuild the herds out there and to bring the species back from a point where it was on the brink of extinction 120 years ago, it really requires that it end up on the dinner plate, for the ranchers to have the incentive to bring the animals back.