People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
GORDON ALLPORTThe mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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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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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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 mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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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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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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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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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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