Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORT
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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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The dog [in Pavlov’s experiments] does not continue to salivate whenever it hears a bell unless sometimes at least an edible offering accompanies the bell.
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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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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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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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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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