Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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 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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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