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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The younger people with the ache of youth were eating all the cheese.

If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.

I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive.

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

There are a lot of people who want to give orders and be bossy that don't deserve respect.

Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.

A place where you can see a good view is also a good place to sit and dream!

You are as young as your spine is flexible.

If there be a true way that leads to the Everlasting Kingdom, it is most certainly that of suffering, patiently endured.

I'm worried just as much about Donald Trump as that crazy guy in North Korea - and he has a nuclear code. I'm worrying about that.