The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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 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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The 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.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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