The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORTIf a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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We cannot know the young child’s personality by studying his systems of interest, for his attention is as yet too labile, his reactions impulsive, and interests unformed.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
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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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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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