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

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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/)

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> [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/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hermann-ebbinghaus/no-matter-how-thoroughly-a-person-may-have-learned-the-greek-alphabet/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [“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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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/)

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> [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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