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.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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