But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
GORDON ALLPORTA 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?
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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