From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
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If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is.
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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 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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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