Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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