Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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Reasoning discovers the true cause of our acts, rationalization finds good reasons for justifying our acts.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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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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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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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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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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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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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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