Capacity Quote by Edward Thorndike Download Open image “Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.” — Edward Thorndike ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Capacity Men Nature Psychology
Nature is simply the environment on earth in which man finds himself, and to treat it as a separate being in the image of… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Nature includes all of the universe and man is not only a part of nature, he is in it up to his neck. — N.J. Berrill Copy Share Image
At present, man applies to nature but half his force. He works on the world with his understanding alone. He lives in it, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature. — Antonio Gramsci Copy Share Image
Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“so much of nature as he is ignorant of,so much of his own mind does not yet posess” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics:… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
The capacity to be puzzled is the premise of all creation, be it in art or in science. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world wants to do? I've known Emma for a few… — Eddie Redmayne Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image
For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else… — Bruce D. Perry Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
