The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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.
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