The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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