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.
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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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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