Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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