People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTThwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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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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