The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTOpen-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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