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?
GORDON ALLPORTExtreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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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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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] Santayana wrote, ‘Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one’s equation written out.’
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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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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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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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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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Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.
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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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