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.
GORDON ALLPORTThere 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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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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[As] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
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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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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and “patriotism” . . .
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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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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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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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The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions.
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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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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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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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