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Quote by Edward Thorndike
The real difference between a mans scientific judgments about hims

The real difference between a mans scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge. – Edward Thorndike

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There is no reasoning, no process of inference or comparison there is no thinking about things, no putting two and two together there are no ideas – the animal does not think of the box or of the food or of the act he is to perform. – Edward Thorndike

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Food
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Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology. – Edward Thorndike

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Education
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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

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Learning
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Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh. – Herodotus

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Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche. – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

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Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it. – Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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I would like to have the superpower of being able to touch a book and then gain all the knowledge out of that book without spending hours and days reading it. – Nicholas Brendon

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