Popular Psychology Quotes

#1. Many books in popular psychology are a melange of the author's comments, a dollop of research, and stupefyingly dull transcriptions from interviews.

Carol Tavris

#2. Popular psychology is a mass of cant, of slush and of superstition worthy of the most flourishing days of the medicine man.

John Dewey

#3. Consumerism has worked very hard, with the help of popular psychology ('Just do it!') to convince people that indulgence is good for you, whereas frugality is self-oppression. It

Yuval Noah Harari

#4. What we have come to, through a combination of popular psychology and expanding technology, is a presumption that all our thoughts and feelings are worth uttering.

Judith Martin

#5. In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

Bill Gates

#6. When we begin to think like everybody else thinks, that is dangerous. Individualism is part of our divine endowment. God made us as individuals and we are responsible before Him.

Dr. J. Otis Yoder

#7. People forget that Mozart wrote for commissions. There's a thing in psychology where they think if it's popular, it can't be serious.

Anthony Hopkins

#8. The line from psychologists is, if you've seen it before, it hasn't killed you yet.

Derek Thompson

#9. The trick to getting through life, she'd told him, is not to resent it when it isn't exactly how you think it should be.

Sarah Addison Allen

#10. Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does not matter. If you have decided to commit suicide, does it matter how you do it?

Javed Akhtar

#11. I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

Albert Einstein

#12. Experimental studies consistently point out that the popular remedy for anger, ventilation, is really worse than useless. In fact, the reverse seems to be true: expressing anger tends to make you even angrier and solidifies an angry attitude.

Judith McKay

#13. I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

#14. Fear feeds off ignorance, whereas compassion and lucidity flower from understanding.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#15. When you start using test audiences, it becomes more scientific than it is about the work itself, and that's boring.

Amanda Seyfried

#16. One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Erwin Rommel

#17. When there is more gratitude, there is less distrust.

Cheng Yen

#18. It's not unusual to be loved by anyone, it's not unusual to have fun with anyone. But when I see you hanging about with anyone, it's not unusual to see me cry. I wanna' die.

Tom Jones

#19. It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

Rudolf Hiferding