Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human.
Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.
The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.
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.
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
The care of a wise and good man for his only son is inferior to the regard of the great Parent of the universe for his creatures.