There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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