The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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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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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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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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