Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTGiven a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORTIt 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 ALLPORTMany studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
GORDON ALLPORTFrom adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
GORDON ALLPORTIndeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.
GORDON ALLPORTEach person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORTOpen-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORTThe scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
GORDON ALLPORTAn 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.
GORDON ALLPORTThere is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
GORDON ALLPORTPersonality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORTLove received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
GORDON ALLPORTPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTPrejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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