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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."
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"There are no new inventions, only new discoveries."

"Every book has to wait for the right time to be read and understood."

"Devote yourself to reading of Scriptures."

"There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective "knowing"; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our "concept" of this thing, our "objectivity," be."

"Life is all about discovery."
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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."

"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."

"Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man."

"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."

"The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations."

"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."
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