Accounts Quote by Jean Piaget

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

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

Physiological psychology, on the other hand, is competent to investigate the relations that hold between the processes of the physical and those of the…

— Wilhelm Wundt

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

Psychology is sometimes called a new science. This is quite wrong. Psychology is, perhaps, the oldest science, and, unfortunately, in its most essential features…

— P.D. Ouspensky

“Indeed, the underlying precept of the new science of mind is that all mental processes are biological—they all depend on organic molecules and cellular…

— Eric Kandel

Psychology, as the behaviorist views it, is a purely objective, experimental branch of natural science which needs introspection as little as do the sciences…

— John B. Watson

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

— James Hillman

“Is there a line to be drawn between psychological and physiological phenomena in man? and if so, where?”

— Leo Tolstoy

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

— Thomas Szasz

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

It's my belief that, since the end of the Second World War, psychology has moved too far away from its original roots, which were…

— Martin Seligman