Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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 received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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