And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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The 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.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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