Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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