Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTIf a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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 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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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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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