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.
GORDON ALLPORTSince 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.
GORDON ALLPORTA 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)
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
GORDON ALLPORTLife is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORTAs partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
GORDON ALLPORTEach 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.
GORDON ALLPORTEach person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTFrom adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
GORDON ALLPORT[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
GORDON ALLPORTOpen-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORTIf 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.
GORDON ALLPORTGiven a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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