Top 5 Phrenology Quotes

Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits

Phrenology, Reason, Recruit

Frederick C. Crews, Frederick Crews (1988). “Skeptical Engagements”, Oxford University Press, USA

I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!

Phrenology, Talent, Stranger

PHRENOLOGY, n. The science of picking the pocket through the scalp. It consists in locating and exploiting the organ that one is a dupe with.

Science, Pockets, Phrenology

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.181, University of Georgia Press

I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor.

Philosophy, Phrenology, Looks

I suspect that our own faith in psychiatry will seem as touchingly quaint to the future as our grandparents' belief in phrenology seems now to us.

Grandparent, Phrenology, Belief

Gore Vidal, Donald Weise (1999). “Gore Vidal: Sexually Speaking, Collected Sex Writings”

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