Gordon Allport Quotes

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

Gordon Allport
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

Gordon Allport
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering. If there is any purpose to life at all there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying.

Gordon Allport
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

Gordon Allport
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.

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

Gordon Allport
A narrowly conceived science can never do business with a narrowly conceived religion.

Gordon Allport
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.

Gordon Allport