The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. Gordon Allport More Quotes by Gordon Allport More Quotes From Gordon Allport As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner. Gordon Allport helping way thinking The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947) Gordon Allport goal science long Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.' Gordon Allport intellectual comforting thinking Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release. Gordon Allport release agents focus 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. Gordon Allport theist being-true science
