History Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus Download Open image ““Psychology has a long past, yet its real history is short.”” — Hermann Ebbinghaus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Past Psychology Science Time
“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be!” — Zal Copy Share Image
“With the passage of time, the psychology of people stays the same, but the tools and objects in the world change.” — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.” — Wolfgang Köhler Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
“History works on a long time scale, and at any given moment we can perceive its directions but imperfectly.” — Daniel Walker Howe Copy Share Image
“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.” — zal Copy Share Image
“Was it possible that human psychology changed between the years of nine and fifteen? It seemed unlikely. What evolutionary purpose would such a change… — Conor Kostick Copy Share Image
The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
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… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions. — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The aim of the tests carried on with these syllable series was, by means of repeated audible perusal of the separate series, to so… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it,… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
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… — Hermann Ebbinghaus Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
