Behinds Quote by Gordon Allport

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“Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual”

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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good…

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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the…

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Life is too short so we must generalize.

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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this…

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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…

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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one…

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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only…

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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell…

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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs…

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