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… — 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
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