Jacques Cousteau Quotes

Believing that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator when it is only the wind does not cost much, but believing that a dangerous predator is the wind may cost an animal its life.

Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

We decide based on how people look; we decide based on how people sound; we decide based on how people are dressed. We decide based on their passion.

If you believe that discrimination exists, it will.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.

They thought they were identifying a set of behaviours, but yeah, they just wanted to have an answer.

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.

My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

There's probably some misunderstanding of who I am and how I roll.

Just as a stream flows smoothly on as long as it encounters no obstruction, so the nature of man and animal is such that we never really notice or become conscious of what is agreeable to our will; if we are to notice something, our will has to have been thwarted, has to have experienced a shock of some kind.

I hunt deer because they aren't capable of higher forms of thinking. All they care about is, 'What am I going to eat next, who am I going to screw next, and can I run fast enough to get away'. They are very much like the French in that way.

I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning.

To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being able to find your way out of a sterile maze, ignoring the fact that if the researcher who designed the maze were to be parachuted into the jungles of Borneo, he or she would be dead of starvation in a week...If I as a human being were told that the standards by which animals are being measured in these experiments are human standards, I would be insulted.

Pigs may like honey, but that doesn't stop it being sweet.

You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.