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


Edward Thorndike

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EDWARD STEICHEN
The use of the term art medium is, to say the least, misleading, for it is the artist that creates a...
EDWARD STEICHEN
Photography suits the temper of this age -- of active bodies and minds. It is a perfect medium for o...
EDWARD WESTON
Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
EDWARD EGGLESTON
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
EDWARD THOMAS
Intellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and ...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.
EDWARD GIBBON
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even w...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Truth, naked, unblushing truth, the first virtue of all serious history, must be the sole recommenda...
EDWARD GIBBON
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...
EDWARD GIBBON
Ethics must begin at the top of an organization. It is a leadership issue and the chief executive mu...
EDWARD HENNESSY
The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
EDWARD GIBBON
Animals are stylized characters in a kind of old saga -- stylized because even the most acute of the...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
Animals used to provide a lowlife way to kill and get away with it, as they do still, but, more intr...
EDWARD HOAGLAND
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The worst of all diseases is a nervous ability.
EDWARD DYSON
Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precis...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the u...
EDWARD TELLER
Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.
EDWARD EDWARDS
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
EDWARD GIBBON
Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
EDWARD GIBBON
Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have b...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
To write is a humiliation.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of acciden...
EDWARD DAHLBERG
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
The work was like peeling an onion. The outer skin came off with difficulty... but in no time you'd ...
EDWARD BLISHEN
By night an atheist half believes in God.
EDWARD YOUNG
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.
EDWARD KOCH