The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTLife is too short so we must generalize.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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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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