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.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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