Quotes from Gordon Allport

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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

Life is too short so we must generalize.

The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.

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

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

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.

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