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.
GORDON ALLPORTIndeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTWe cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
GORDON ALLPORTLife is too short so we must generalize.
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.
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
GORDON ALLPORTThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTA 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 ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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