Quotes by Gordon W. Allport - Page 1

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.
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Dogmatism
Scientific
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What is familiar tends to become a value.
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Familiar
Tends
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No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
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Scorn
Corner
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Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
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Positive
Active
Obvious
Remains
Self Love
Natures
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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
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Truth Is
Pretend
Lose
Possesses
Surest
Surest Way
Wholly
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Life Thinking Way
Manner
We Cannot
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Idiom
Species
Syntax
Violation
Apparent
Himself
Unto
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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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Appropriate
Hopeless
Laughter
Sword
Ultimately
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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
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Evidence
Misconception
Prejudice
Simple
Actively
Unlike
Resistant
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Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.
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Change
Features
Finished
Personality
Process
Stable
Less
Same
Continually
Finished Product
Product
Same Time
Undergoing
While
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Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.
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Fortunate
Handicapped
Mortals
Unhappy
Anybody Else
Scarcely
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To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.
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Conflict
Groups
Haunting
Irritation
Considerable
Minority
Suffer
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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.
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Bitter
Punishment
Unhappiness
Formed
Loyalties
Prolonged
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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.
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Comfort
Ease
Plenty
Prejudice
Marry
Normally
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Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
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Linked
Mature
Self Awareness
Transitory
Element
Organizing
Impulses
Large Part
Striving
Pattern
Thus
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Hints
Orderly
Outlines
Psychology
Supplies
Uniqueness
Acquiring
Discovered
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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Categories
Handle
Virtue
Considered
Event
Occur
Strictly
Speaking
Strictly Speaking
We Cannot
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The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.
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Capable
Infant
Psychology
Transformation
Account
Loves
Hates
Loyalties
Ordered
Primary
Structured
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We cannot know the young child's personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed. From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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Adolescence
Clue
Hierarchy
Impulsive
Reactions
Adult
Adult Life
Loves
However
Interests
Loyalties
Onward
Studying
Surest
Systems
We Cannot
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