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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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