The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTEach person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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 received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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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