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Top 25 Edward Thorndike Quotes (2025 Update)

Edward Thorndike Quote: “All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.”

1. “All that exists, exists in some amount and can be measured.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.”

2. “Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.”

3. “He who learns and runs away, lives to learn another day.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.”

4. “Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.”

5. “Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”

6. “Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

7. “Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.”

8. “Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.”

9. “Nowhere more truly than in his mental capacities is man a part of nature.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

10. “The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “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.”

11. “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.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.”

12. “Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.”

13. “Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.”

14. “Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal’s mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.”

15. “The un-conscious distortion of the facts is almost harmless compared to the unconscious neglect of an animal’s mental life until it verges on the unusual and marvelous.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.”

16. “To the intelligent man with an interest in human nature it must often appear strange that so much of the energy of the scientific world has been spent on the study of the body and so little on the study of the mind.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

17. “The real difference between a man’s scientific judgments about himself and the judgment of others about him is he has added sources of knowledge.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.”

18. “From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.”

19. “It will of course, be understood that directly or indirectly, soon or late, every advance in the sciences of human nature will contribute to our success in controlling human nature and changing it to the advantage of the common wheel.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.”

20. “For origin and development of human faculty we must look to these processes of association in lower animals.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.”

21. “The intellectual evolution of the race consists in an increase in the number, delicacy, complexity, permanence and speed of formation of such associations.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.”

22. “The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.”

23. “So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.”

24. “This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.”

25. “On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.”

26. “Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.”

27. “The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.”

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Edward Thorndike Quote: “When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.”

28. “When, instead of merely associating some act with some situation in the animal way, we think the situation out, we have a set of particular feelings of its elements.”

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