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.
—Edward Thorndike
Topics: Welfare
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
—Edward Thorndike
Topics: Words, Wisdom
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Carol Dweck American Psychologist
- B. F. Skinner American Psychologist
- E. O. Wilson American Sociobiologist
- Charles Sanders Peirce American Philosopher
- James Harvey Robinson American Historian
- John Dewey American Philosopher
- Henry Steele Commager American Historian
- Murray Gell-Mann American Physicist
- Mark Van Doren American Poet, Critic
- Franz Boas American Anthropologist
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