"Psychology has a long past, but only a…" — Hermann Ebbinghaus
"Psychology has a long past, but only a short history."
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Hermann Ebbinghaus
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22 Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus
Hermann Ebbinghaus has 22 quotes on this site.
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Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time…
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Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.
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Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is…
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A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it…
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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly…
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The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.
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Mental states of every kind, - sensations, feelings, ideas, - which were at one time present in consciousness and then…
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No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to…
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One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be…
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Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do…
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What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.
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Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act…
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More History Quotes
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
— Aristotle
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Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature…
— Aristotle
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the…
— Neil Armstrong
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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We released 400,000 classified documents, the most extraordinary history of a war to ever have been released in our civilization.…
— Julian Assange
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Natural history is not about producing fables.
— David Attenborough
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Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural…
— David Attenborough
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In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural…
— David Attenborough
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