34 Quotes by Edward Thorndike

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.

All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

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.

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.

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.

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.