Life is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORTThe 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 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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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 specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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