Quotes by Gordon Allport

Gordon Allport

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

Helping

Thinking

Way

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Science

Syntax

Violation

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

Dramatic

Facts

Tubs

If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.

Emotional

Light

Simple

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.

Adversity

Men

Responsibility

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

Class

Play

Race

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Bitter

Loyalty

Punishment

Life is too short so we must generalize.

Life Is

Life Is Too Short

Too Short

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

And Love

Given

Love And Marriage

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

Agents

Focus

Release

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Doubt

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Exposed

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Faith

Focus

Given

Goal

Hands

Hate

Helping

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Justice

Life Is

Life Is Too Short

Light

Links

Long

Love And Marriage

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Lying

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Men

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Offering

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People

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Quotes by Gordon Allport

Gordon Allport

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed. And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.

Life is too short so we must generalize.

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

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

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