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.
GORDON ALLPORTA 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?
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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