Quotes by Phrenology 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. Ambrose Bierce phrenology pockets science Psychoanalysis will fade away just as mesmerism and phrenology did, and for the same reason - its exploded pretensions will deprive it of recruits Frederick Crews phrenology recruit reason 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. Gore Vidal phrenology grandparent belief I look upon Phrenology as the guide to philosophy and the handmaid of Christianity. Whoever disseminates true Phrenology is a public benefactor. Horace Mann phrenology philosophy looks I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then! Thomas A. Edison phrenology talent stranger