"As partisans of our own way of life,……" — Gordon W. Allport
"As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner."
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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When I think of how we show faith, I cannot help but think of the example of my own father.…
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And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
— William J. H. Boetcker
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If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
— Ray Bradbury
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I'm just going to write because I cannot help it.
— Charlotte Bronte
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When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help…
— David Byrne
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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman…
— Lord Byron
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If I steal money from any person, there may be no harm done from the mere transfer of possession; he…
— William Kingdon Clifford
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I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.
— Mark Twain
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You love simply because you cannot help it.
— Unknown Author
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Every time I see the sunshine in the bright blue sky, I cannot help but think how blessed I really…
— Donna Karan
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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