Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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