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.
GORDON ALLPORTAnd sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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A new experience must be redacted into old categories. We cannot handle each event freshly in its own right. If we did so, of what use would past experience be?
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