"The results of ethnic psychology constitute, at the same time, our chief source of information regarding the general psychology of the complex mental processes."

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Source : Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

Wilhelm Wundt

#Psychology Quotes #Information Quotes #Process Quotes

“Memory is often - perhaps usually - a distorting lens: what we think we remember isn't the way it was at all. It's what we'd like to remember.”
“People are good at figuring out what's attractive, and computers are good at quickly searching and finding. You put them together, and bang!”

Source : "For Certain Tasks, The Cortex Still Beats The CPU". Interview with Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. June 25, 2007.
“What I read is so distorted that I cannot believe that the person they are talking about is myself.”
“I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.”
“I feel like my responsibility as an actor is to make characters as compelling and believable as possible.”
“My favorite photos are the ones where people don't really see me. I'm more interested in looking at people looking at things.”
“I want painting to be difficult to do.”

Source : "Richard Diebenkorn and the colours of California" by Olivia Laing, www.theguardian.com. February 28, 2015.
“This is the normal way with birthdays, see? Amazingly enough, they arrive on the same day, every year.”

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