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.
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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)
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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