Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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