Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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