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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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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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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 a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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