"No corner of the world is free from…" — Gordon W. Allport
"No corner of the world is free from group scorn."
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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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There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.
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My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days,…
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I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their…
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I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in.
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Facts, like people, want to be free - and when they're free, liberty is usually around the corner.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed…
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Amazement awaits us at every corner.
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A city is where you can sign a petition, boo the chief justice, fish off a pier, gaze at a…
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