Life is too short so we must generalize.
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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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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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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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