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The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.
— Gordon W. Allport
Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
— Gordon W. Allport
No corner of the world is free from group scorn.
— Gordon W. Allport
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.
— Gordon W. Allport
What is familiar tends to become a value.
— Gordon W. Allport
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
— Gordon Allport
Personality is and does something ... It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
— Gordon Allport
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
— Gordon W. Allport
Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
— Gordon W. Allport
Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.
— Gordon W. Allport
Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.
— Gordon W. Allport
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
— Gordon W. Allport
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" ... Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
— Gordon Allport
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
— Gordon Allport
Who lacks confidence speaks lies more readily.
— Nachman Of Breslov
I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.
— Bill Parcells
The statement 'the Shariah says...' is thus automatically misleading, as there is almost always more than one answer to any legal question.
— Jonathan A.C. Brown
Our government has made a whole lot of promises that, in the long run, it cannot possibly keep without huge tax increases.
— David Walker
I, too, overflow; ... my body knows unheard-of songs.
— Helene Cixous
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
— Gordon W. Allport
I consider a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Great men, even during their lifetime, are usually known to the public only through a fictitious personality.
— Walter Lippmann
There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."
— Gordon Allport
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
— Gordon W. Allport
Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
— Gordon Allport
If you don't give your heart away, you can't get it broken.
— Addison Moore
In short, all good things are wild and free.
— Henry David Thoreau
Life is too short so we must generalize.
— Gordon Allport
People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.
— Gordon W. Allport
Am I here to play 'pass the parcel' with my balls?
— Pawan Mishra