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 More Quotes by Edward Thorndike More Quotes From Edward Thorndike Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. Edward Thorndike wisdom wise fall All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured. Edward Thorndike amount existence science Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man. Edward Thorndike animal character science 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 education character mean He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day. Edward Thorndike another-day military running 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 nature ideas thinking 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 intelligent nature men Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature. Edward Thorndike nature capacity men Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality. Edward Thorndike wells quality knowing 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 intellectual race numbers 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 fashion dog hands 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 welfare may mean So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act. Edward Thorndike situation fitting animal 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 feelings animal thinking Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable. Edward Thorndike aim psychology helping 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 differences real men For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals. Edward Thorndike development animal looks Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine. Edward Thorndike magazines dog lost 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 kings animal men 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 lasts study character
