Experimental psychology Quote by Wilhelm Wundt

Psychology often becomes the disease of which it should be the cure.

— Bertrand Russell

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

— Anonymous

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

— James Hillman

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

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

There are other sources of psychological knowledge, which become accessible at the very point where the experimental method fails us.

— Wilhelm Wundt

It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Psychology is the science of mental life”

— William James

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about…

— Abraham Maslow

In pursuing my fervent goal of relating external stimuli to reports about internal-neural change, we were, paradoxically enough, following the most orthodox tradition in…

— Timothy Leary

“Psychology at best tells us how things are, not how they are supposed to be! There is no utopic science.”

— zal