And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORTOpen-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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