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.
GORDON ALLPORTIf 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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