Jane Goodall Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• There are an awful lot of scientists today who believe that before very long we shall have unraveled all the secrets of the universe. There will be no puzzles anymore. To me, it'd be really, really tragic because I think one of the most exciting things is this feeling of mystery, feeling of awe, the feeling of looking at a little live thing and being amazed by it and how it has emerged through these hundreds of years of evolution and there it is and it is perfect and why.

  Jane Goodall

  Nature, Believe, Thinking

• I had a wonderful teacher about animal behavior - my dog Rusty. He taught me that animals have personalities, minds, and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Teacher, Animal

• To me, cruelty is the worst of human sins. Once we accept that a living creature has feelings and suffers pain, then by knowingly and deliberately inflicting suffering on that creature, we are guilty, whether it be human or animal.

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Science, Animal

• As human beings, we can encompass a vague feeling of what the universe is, and all in this funny little brain here - so there has to be something more than just brain, it has to be something to do with spirit as well.

  Jane Goodall

  Feelings, Brain, Littles

• I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Empathy, Feelings

• It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.

  Jane Goodall

  Believe, Animal, People

• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Feelings, Want

• You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Dog, Cat, Animal

  "Chimps with everything: Jane Goodall's 50 years in the jungle". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 26, 2010.

• And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger.

  Jane Goodall

  Feelings, May, Messengers

• Researchers find it very necessary to keep blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings. They don't want to admit that they might have minds and personalities because that would make it quite difficult for them to do what they do; so we find that within the lab communities there is a very strong resistance among the researchers to admitting that animals have minds, personalities and feelings.

  Jane Goodall

  Strong, Animal, Personality

• Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion.

  Jane Goodall

  Past, Rushing, Water

  "Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey". Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.

• There are many people out there (me being one of them) who can vouch that animals have feelings; they feel compassion and love, as well as pain!

  Jane Goodall

  Pain, Animal, Compassion

  "Conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall: Empathizing with Animals and Touching People’s Hearts". Interview with Lauren Kearney, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

• We can learn to suppress our feelings for other reasons.

  Jane Goodall

  Feelings, Reason

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

• The problem of the chimps is that they can only sit and look. They can't discuss what they feel. All that feeling is trapped within each one.

  Jane Goodall

  Feelings, Looks, Problem

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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