The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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 partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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