As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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 dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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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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