As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
GORDON ALLPORTReasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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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] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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