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.
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.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
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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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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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