"The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in……" — Gordon W. Allport
"The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt."
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Gordon W. Allport
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29 Quotes by Gordon W. Allport
Gordon W. Allport has 29 quotes on this site.
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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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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one…
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a…
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of…
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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…
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But…
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Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with…
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
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More Doubt Quotes
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There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do…
— Ibrahim Babangida
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I want to state unequivocally for the world, as well as for the markets, as well as for the American…
— Michele Bachmann
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
— Francis Bacon
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In terms of the romantic kind of lead, I just never enjoy those movies very much. Maybe they'll come to…
— Christian Bale
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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
— Hosea Ballou
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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I'm full of self-doubt. I doubt everything I do. Everything I do is a failure.
— John Banville
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If a man fights his way through his doubts to the conviction that Jesus Christ is Lord, he has attained…
— William Barclay
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
— Henry Adams
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The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to…
— John Adams
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The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would…
— Dave Barry
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Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend…
— Ethel Barrymore
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