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.

Humans more easily remember or learn items when they are studied a few times over a long period of time (spaced presentation), rather than studied repeatedly in a short period of time.

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.

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.

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

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

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

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.

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.

What is true [in psychology] is alas not new, the new not true.

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.

We are in the same tent as the clowns and the freaks-that's show business.

Your mine, angel. And I won't let anything change that.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

God doesn't want our success; He wants us. He doesn't demand our achievements; He demands our obedience.

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.

Peace is the harvest of love as war is the fruit of hate.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

It is not the cause for which men took up arms that makes a victory more just or less, it is the order that is established when arms have been laid down.

I know the guru route, I know you go sit on a mountain. But screw India. I ain't going there.