Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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