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.
GORDON ALLPORTIt takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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