Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTIf a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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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.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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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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