All Gordon W. Allport Quotes
- People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. Ashamed
- There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like." All
- 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,… Acceptable
- 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… Answers
- Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub. Dramatic
- 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.… Accident
- The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. 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… Accept
- Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual Acts
- Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge. Exposed
- 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… Contradicts
- Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. Apparent
- No corner of the world is free from group scorn. Corner
- A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. Actively
- It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty… Class
- Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle… Cannot Handle
- As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. Cannot Help
- What is familiar tends to become a value. Familiar
- It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can… Amount
- Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals. Anybody