Alas Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus Download Open image “What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.” — Hermann Ebbinghaus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Funny Inspirational Love Psychology
What is new is not always true, and what is true is not always new. — William Sargant Copy Share Image
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features… — P.D. Ouspensky Copy Share Image
“what is new in his theories is not true, and what is true in his theories is not new.” — Hans Eysenck Copy Share Image
When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally,… — William James Copy Share Image
Theory must mediate between all previous truths and certain new experiences — William James Copy Share Image
Truth is new, as well as old. It has new forms; and where you may find a new statement, an earnest statement, you may… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Whatever you determine to be true in the subconscious becomes true for you. — Richard Hatch Copy Share Image
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. — John Lilly 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
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image