The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTThe specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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 not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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