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.
GORDON ALLPORTLove-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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The 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.
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The 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.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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