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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

the success of a relationship is determined not by a lack of conflict but by how well a couple works through conflict. — Debra Fileta

Personality is and does something ... It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport

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

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. — Gordon Allport

Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus. — J.K. Rowling

Many a good newspaper story has been ruined by over verification. — James Gordon Bennett

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate — Gordon Allport

When it comes to sin, the only one who has a right to condemn others is Jesus. And he refused. — Judah Smith

We don't care how big or strong opponents are as long as they are human. — Robert Zuppke

I had Lana and she was the number one player on my team — Abbi Glines

If you are small root then easily anyone cut you, make you a big roots which never cut from anybody. — AbdulNasir

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

Sleep is death enjoyed. — Friedrich Hebbel

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

Plant as many good thoughts as you can in each day. — Rhonda Byrne

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

The gospel produced order, life, and purpose among the Thessalonians because it was a gospel of the Word and the Spirit. — Rob McCorkle

Life is too short so we must generalize. — Gordon Allport

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see. — John Cage

Knowing God yields wonderful results, under the guidance and control of the Holy Spirit. — Stephen Arterburn

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