Life is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORTThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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