Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes

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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 studied…
• Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
• Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.
• Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the…
• A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort…
• Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the…
• The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
• Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have…
• 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…
• One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but…
• Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in…
• What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
• Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is,…
• Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when…
• The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
• On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such…
• The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in…
• The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his…
• 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…
• 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…

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