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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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An experience associated only once with a bereavement, an accident, or a battle, may become the center of a permanent phobia or complex, not in the least dependent on a recurrence of the original shock.
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