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.
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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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