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. Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for… — 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
![“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. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f3b/gordon-allport-29384_assignments_since-we-think-about-ourselves-so-much-o_1110919.jpg)
![“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. But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long…” quote by Gordon Allport](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/488/gordon-allport-29384_accidents_the-dog-in-pavlov-s-experiments-does-not_1383042.jpg)
