Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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