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 scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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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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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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Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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 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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