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?
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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