Account Quote by Charles D. Broad

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind…

— Charles D. Broad

Psychology assumes that "things" are and "minds" are; and that, within certain limits determined by the so-called "nature" of both, they act causally upon…

— George Trumbull Ladd

To understand most important ideas in psychology, you need to understand how the mind is divided into parts that sometimes conflict. We assume that…

— Jonathan Haidt

The purpose of psychology is to give us a completely different idea of the things we know best.

— Paul Valery

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

— James Mark Baldwin

One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We…

— Noam Chomsky

It's better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you'll be too afraid to let…

— David Lynch

Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation…

— Samuel Alexander

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 trouble with psychology is that it doesn't take human nature into account.

— Ruth Rendell

Psychology saves us from mistakes. It makes us more clear as to what we are about. We gain confidence in respect to any method…

— William James

Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself.

— Albert Camus