The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTGiven a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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A 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?
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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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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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