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

- Gordon Allport

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

- Gordon Allport

If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must …

- Gordon Allport

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

- Gordon Allport

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

- Gordon Allport

Life is too short so we must generalize.

- Gordon Allport

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

- Gordon 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, an…

- Gordon Allport

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

- Gordon Allport