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Top 15 Hermann Ebbinghaus Quotes (2025 Update)

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.”

1. “Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.”

2. “On the basis of the familiar experience that that which is learned with difficulty is better retained, it would have been safe to prophesy such an effect from the greater number of repetitions.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Mental states of every kind, – sensations, feelings, ideas, – which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.”

3. “Mental states of every kind, – sensations, feelings, ideas, – which were at one time present in consciousness and then have disappeared from it, have not with their disappearance absolutely ceased to exist.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “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.”

5. “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.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.”

6. “No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

7. “A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.”

8. “Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.”

9. “Ideas which have been developed simultaneously or in immediate succession in the same mind mutually reproduce each other, and do this with greater ease in the direction of the original succession and with a certainty proportional to the frequency with which they were together.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”

10. “The constant flux and caprice of mental events do not admit of the establishment of stable experimental conditions.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Mental events, it is said, are not passive happenings but the acts of a subject.”

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

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “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.”

12. “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.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.”

13. “Often, even after years, mental states once present in consciousness return to it with apparent spontaneity and without any act of the will; that is, they are reproduced involuntarily.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.”

14. “The school-boy doesnt force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “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.”

15. “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.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

Hermann Ebbinghaus Quote: “One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.”

17. “One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased.”

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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