"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise……" — Edward Thorndike
"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."
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28 Quotes by Edward Thorndike
Edward Thorndike has 28 quotes on this site.
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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to…
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern…
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human…
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because…
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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we…
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
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The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal's mental life until…
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a…
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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the…
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More Color Quotes
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one of 3,174 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you.…
— Chinua Achebe
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
— Marcus Aurelius
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You don't want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you…
— Richard Bach
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An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
— Honore de Balzac
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Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.
— Pedro Calderon de la Barca
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
— Dave Barry
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For horror movies, color is reassuring because, at least in older films, it adds to the fakey-ness.
— Lynda Barry
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It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.
— Lance Bass
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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I like bold colors but usually wear black.
— Mayim Bialik
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