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He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Running
Another Day
Military
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All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Science
Amount
Existence
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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Wisdom
Wise
Fall
Writing
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So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Fitting
Situation
Finally
Performs
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Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Aim
Helping
Probability
Psychology
Attainable
Helps
Measure
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Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Nature
Men
Capacity
Nature Man More
Nowhere
Capacities
Mental
Truly
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Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Facts
Matter
Animals
Eager
Folk
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Science
Animal
Behavior
Character
Including
Psychology
Man
Animals
Characters
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From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Men
Animal
Intellect
Lowest
Type
Affirm
Animals
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For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Association
Development
Faculty
Looks
Animals
Lower
Origin
Processes
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Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Dog
Lost
Magazines
Account
Dogs
Hundreds
Magazine
Notices
Scientific
Sends
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Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Kings
Men
Animal
Animals
Leads
Minds
Planet
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Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Quality
Knowing
Quantity
Wells
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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Art
Education
Science
Agriculture
Botany
Chemistry
Physiology
Psychology
Depend
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The real difference between a man's scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Men
Differences
Real
Added
Judgments
Real Difference
Scientific
Sources
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The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Coarse
Connections
Dog
Fashion
Hands
Acts
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The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Complexity
Delicacy
Formation
Intellectual
Numbers
Permanence
Race
Speed
Associations
Consists
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This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Men
Animal
Complexity
Delicacy
Formation
Growth
Numbers
Permanence
Speed
Associations
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The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Circumstances
Function
Intellect
May
Mean
Modifying
Pleasure
Reactions
Secure
Welfare
Provide
Symptom
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The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Character
Conscious
Influence
Intellect
Psychology
Restriction
Scientific
Studies
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When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Elements
Feelings
Particular
Thinking
Merely
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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 it verges on the unusual and marvelous.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Distortion
Facts
Marvelous
Mental Health
Neglect
Unconscious
Unusual
Harmless
Mental
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Character
Lasts
Study
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On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Century
Consciousness
Intellect
Neglect
Nineteenth Century
Psychological
Study
Life Work Character
Total
Emphasized
Nineteenth
Quarter
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Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Education
Certain
Character
Concerned
Materials
Mean
Topics
Aims
Included
Methods
Problems
Roughly
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Behavior
Way
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Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Concern
Conscious
Inner Life
Response
Statements
Acquired
Inner
Observer
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To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Nature
Men
Human Nature
Intelligent
Intelligent Man
Strange
Study
Nature Man World
Appear
Scientific
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It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Nature
Common
Wheels
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It will, of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common weal.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Human Nature
Late
Understood
Advance
Changing
Contribute
Directly
Indirectly
Sciences
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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison; there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together; there are no ideas - the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Animal
Comparison
Ideas
Inference
Process
Reasoning
Thinking
Together
Act
Box
Perform
Putting
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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.
Edward Thorndike / Psychologist
Nature
Accustomed
Human Beings
Ideas
Intellect
Isolated
Thinking
Beings
Rare
Controlling
Synonymous
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