And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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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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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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