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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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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Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed. – Terry Goodkind

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International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. – Rebecca West

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

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The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible. – Ernest Holmes

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