Top 19 Quotes by Gordon W. Allport

About Gordon W. Allport

These are some quotes by American author Gordon W. Allport Psychologist, who lived between November 11, 1897 and October 9, 1967.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.

Gordon W. Allport

What is familiar tends to become a value.

What is familiar tends to become a value.

Gordon W. Allport

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.

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.

Gordon W. 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.

Gordon W. Allport

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.

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.

Gordon W. Allport

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

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

Gordon W. Allport

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

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

Gordon W. Allport

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

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

Gordon W. Allport

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

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

Gordon W. Allport

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?

Gordon W. Allport

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