The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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A good parent, a good neighbour, a good citizen, is not good because his specific goals are acceptable, but because his successive goals are ordered to a dependable and socially desirable set of values. (1947)
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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