"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect……" — Edward Thorndike
"Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature."
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Edward Thorndike
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
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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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