The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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 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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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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