If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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 not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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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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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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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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