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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Fact Generalization Given Large Make Rush Thimbleful Tub
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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 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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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