top of page
.png){kind=small}
"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."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Growth quotes
"You may not be able to control the whole world, but you may learn to control your inner world through yoga."
"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
"The decisions of citizens either in matters of private business or political life of the nation, are directly related to the prevailing value system of the nation."
"Convert your knowledge into product."
"Your challenge in life does not define you but only refines you."
"For every establishment there is a stir-up virtue."
Explore more quotes by Edward Thorndike
"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."
"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."
"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."
"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology."
"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."
bottom of page