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.
GORDON ALLPORTLife is too short so we must generalize.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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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)
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Reason 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.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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