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.
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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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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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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