If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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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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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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