If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced.
GORDON ALLPORTFrom adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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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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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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Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate
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Life is too short so we must generalize.
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And sometimes no amount of punishment can make us repudiate our loyalty.
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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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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Reason adapts impulses and beliefs into the real world; rationalization, on the other hand, adapts the concept of reality to the impulses and beliefs of the individual.
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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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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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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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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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