From 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.’
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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