Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTThe specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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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 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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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