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.
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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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But there are innumerable instances in human life where a single association, never reinforced, results in the establishment of a life-long dynamic system.
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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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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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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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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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