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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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 takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Apparent Each Himself Idiom Person Species Syntax Violation

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