Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTReason 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
-
-
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORT -
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORT -
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORT -
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORT -
But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
GORDON ALLPORT -
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
GORDON ALLPORT -
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
GORDON ALLPORT -
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
GORDON ALLPORT -
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)
GORDON ALLPORT -
And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORT -
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 ALLPORT -
Life is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORT -
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.
GORDON ALLPORT -
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORT -
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
GORDON ALLPORT