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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

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

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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