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.
GORDON ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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 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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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