Hermann Ebbinghaus

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.

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These are some quotes by German author Hermann Ebbinghaus Psychologist, who lived between January 24, 1850 and February 26, 1909.

Quotes by Hermann Ebbinghaus

Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

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Sensorial perception, for example, certainly occurs with greater or less accuracy according to the degree of interest; it is constantly given other directions by the change of external stimuli and by ideas.

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Meanwhile the fact that the connection with the activity of memory in ordinary life is for the moment lost is of less importance than the reverse, namely, that this connection with the complications and fluctuations of life is necessarily still a too close one.

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