Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTLove-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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