Animal Cunning

Famous quotes containing the words animal and/or cunning:

    “Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.”
    —Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)

    “The title wise is, for the most part, falsely applied. How can one be a wise man, if he does not know any better how to live than other men?—if he is only more cunning and intellectually subtle?”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)