Form Quote by Boris Sidis

Psychology is the science of the act of experiencing, and deals with the whole system of such acts as they make up mental life.

— Samuel Alexander

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

— Edward Thorndike

Psychology is ultimately mythology, the study of the stories of the soul.

— James Hillman

Psychology is the description of the reflection of the terrestial world in the heavenly plane, or, more correctly, the description of a reflection such…

— Franz Kafka

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

There is no psychology; there is only biography and autobiography.

— Thomas Szasz

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

— James Mark Baldwin

The attitude of physiological psychology to sensations and feelings, considered as psychical elements, is, naturally, the attitude of psychology at large.

— Wilhelm Wundt

My task was to show the psychologists that it is possible to apply physiological knowledge to the phenomena of psychical life.

— Ivan Sechenov

Psychology must postulate uniformity of interrelation of physical, physiological, and psychic processes.

— Boris Sidis

Psychology, on the other hand, seeks to give account of the interconnexion of processes which are evinced by our own consciousness, or which we…

— Wilhelm Wundt

The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it…

— Sigmund Freud