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.
GORDON ALLPORTThe theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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