Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are 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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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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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 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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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