Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTThe specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not 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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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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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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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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