An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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