Gordon W. Allport Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.”

“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?”

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

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

“Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.”

“The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.”

“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.”

“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.”

“What is familiar tends to become a value.”