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.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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We 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.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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