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Edward Thorndike Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 31, 1874 - August 9, 1949

Topics

Nature Learning Power Ideas Think

Growing up in Los Angeles, obviously it's a really fashionable city, but it has a really relaxed quality to it as well. So, my fashion education came while working on 'Suits'.

Meghan Markle

Education Quality City Growing Up Up

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Person Years Experiences Lived Most

I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.

Stephen Hawking

Daughter Money School Writing Book

My weight fluctuates. I have years where I wear a size 10, and years where I wear a size 4.

Tracee Ellis Ross

Years Size Wear Where Weight

Libertarians argue that no normal adult has the right to impose choices on other normal adults, except in abnormal circumstances, such as when one person finds another unconscious and administers medical assistance or calls an ambulance.

Tom G. Palmer

Medical Choices Person Circumstances

Airports and 'leg room' on planes are a form of medieval torture.

Mary E. Pearson

Room Torture Leg Medieval Planes

'Home Alone' had become the absolute biggest film I had ever done, and it became the third-highest grossing film of all time. So clearly it had an effect on me that is unparalleled to any other film experience in my childhood.

Devin Ratray

Home Alone Time Experience Childhood

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

Corey Hart

Power Money Celebrity Very

I like 'love' songs, however cheesy that might sound.

Armaan Malik

Love Sound Might Cheesy Like Songs

I think Scotland could take a stand in a wonderful way, ecologically and morally and ethically.

Annie Lennox

Think Stand Way Wonderful Take

In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.

Anne Enright

You Person More Grandparents Tell

Children should be taught in school that you should have all kinds of asset classes in your portfolio. They should be taught what those asset classes are, and their advantages and disadvantages.

Arundhati Bhattacharya

Children School You Portfolio Asset