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> [No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/no-matter-how-thoroughly-a-person-may-have-learned-the-greek-alphabet/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

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> [Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/out-of-the-simple-consonants-of-the-alphabet-and-our-eleven-vowels/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

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## More by Hermann Ebbinghaus

> [The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/the-amount-of-detailed-information-which-an-individual-has-at-his/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [The school-boy doesn't force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/the-school-boy-doesn-t-force-himself-to-learn-his-vocabularies-and/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/no-matter-how-thoroughly-a-person-may-have-learned-the-greek-alphabet/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/often-even-after-years-mental-states-once-present-in-consciousness/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/on-the-basis-of-the-familiar-experience-that-that-which-is-learned/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/the-constant-flux-and-caprice-of-mental-events-do-not-admit-of-the/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/humans-more-easily-remember-or-learn-items-when-they-are-studied-a/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [“Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/psychology-has-a-long-past-yet-its-real-history-is-short/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/the-aim-of-the-tests-carried-on-with-these-syllable-series-was-by/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/the-relation-of-repetitions-for-learning-and-for-repeating-english/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/meanwhile-the-fact-that-the-connection-with-the-activity-of-memory-in/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/mental-states-of-every-kind-sensations-feelings-ideas-which-were-at/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/these-syllables-about-2-300-in-number-were-mixed-together-and-then/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/ideas-which-have-been-developed-simultaneously-or-in-immediate/)

[Hermann Ebbinghaus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hermann-ebbinghaus/)

> [Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/series-of-syllables-which-have-been-learned-by-heart-forgotten-and/)

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