Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.