Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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 scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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