Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within 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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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