If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image