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.
GORDON ALLPORTIt takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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