Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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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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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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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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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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