Full Idea
I think that if a lion could talk, that lion would have a mind so different from the general run of lion minds, that although we could understand him just fine, we would learn little about ordinary lions from him.
Gist of Idea
If a lion could talk, it would be nothing like other lions
Source
comment on Ludwig Wittgenstein (Philosophical Investigations [1952], II.xi) by Daniel C. Dennett - Consciousness Explained 14.2
Book Reference
Dennett,Daniel C.: 'Consciousness Explained' [Penguin 1993], p.447
A Reaction
This is rather more sensible than Wittgenstein's famous enigmatic utterance.