"If there is a purpose in life at……" — Gordon W. Allport
"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 what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities."
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Gordon W. Allport
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29 Quotes by Gordon W. Allport
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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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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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