Home / Quotes / Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

“The amount of detailed information which an individual has at his command and his theoretical elaborations of the same are mutually dependent; they grow in and through each other.”

Quote by Hermann Ebbinghaus

Work

This book delves into the complexities of human memory and its impact on personal identity, weaving a narrative that challenges the reader's understanding of memory and its role in shaping one's self. more

Author

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus (January 24, 1850 - February 26, 1909) was a German psychologist, known as one of the pioneers of experimental psychology. He is renowned for his research on memory, particularly his studies on the memorization of meaningless syllables. more

You May Also Like

“The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them.”

Giving Writing Eye Form Voice Study Musician Painter Combination Rely Orchestra Inner Voice Disadvantages

Book:Memory

Source: Memory

“The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on the first day with less than half of the repetitions necessary for the shortest of the syllable series.”

Needs Firsts Heart Half Relation Series Repetition Syllables Amplification

Book:Memory

Source: Memory

“The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.”

Writing Mind Soul Whole Written Burning Your Soul Guts

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.”

Play Wind Intellectual Musical Instance Opera Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.”

Ifs Reason Play Musical Cartoon

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“Truth is error burned up.”

Truth Truth Is Errors Burned

Book:Love's Body

Source: Love's Body

“To be is to be vulnerable.”

Vulnerable Vulnerability

Book:Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Source: Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

“The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.”

Religious Money Complexes Substitutes Apes Heirs Demonic

Book:Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

Source: Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History

“You don't have a family doctor anymore like you did when you were a kid, who treated you throughout your life.”

Kids Family Like You Doctors Treated Family Life

Author:Mehmet Oz

“I get up in the morning and do a seven-minute yoga workout. I know the most likely time I'm going to do something is when I first get up, and I make it short because, like you, I don't really want to do that first thing in the morning.”

Knows Want Firsts Morning Minutes Like You Yoga Seven Get Up Workout

Author:Mehmet Oz