The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour,… — Gordon Allport Acceptable Copy Share Image
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. — Gordon Allport Doubt 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… — Gordon Allport Being true Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score....… — Gordon Allport Assignments Copy Share Image
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport Behinds 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… — Gordon Allport Accidents 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… — Gordon Allport Answers Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Ashamed 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… — Gordon Allport Bias Copy Share Image
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy. — Gordon Allport And love 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… — Gordon Allport Accepting Copy Share Image
Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses… — Gordon Allport Belief Copy Share Image
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots. — Gordon Allport Bigots Copy Share Image
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't… — Gordon Allport Despise Copy Share Image
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. — Gordon Allport Exposed Copy Share Image
Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. — Gordon Allport Agents Copy Share Image