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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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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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Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume … that we really know the score…. [But] this is not an easy assignment.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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