Gordon Allport Quotes

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• People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
• There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
• The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen,…
• The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher…
• Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
• 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.…
• The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
• If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another…
• Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
• Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
• The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole…
• Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

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