black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.

Related Topics

Ashamed Eliminate People Prejudices Road Well

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, “I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn’t like.”
GORDON ALLPORT

Country Despise Like never Once Remark Story Student
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
GORDON ALLPORT

Doubt Fashion Mature Ordinarily Religious Sentiment Workshop
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.
GORDON ALLPORT

Accept Answer Continue Each Find Grow Indignity Must Out Prescribe Responsibility Spite Succeed
From adolescence onward, however, the surest clue to personality is the hierarchy of interests, including the loves and loyalties of adult life.
GORDON ALLPORT

Adolescence Adult However Include Life Love Loyalty Onward Personality Surets
Life is too short so we must generalize.
GORDON ALLPORT

Generalize Life Must Short
As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
GORDON ALLPORT

Help Life Manner Own Parisian Think Way
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
GORDON ALLPORT

Commitment Create Fewer More Nature never Question Scientist Very Way
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
GORDON ALLPORT

Become Expose Knowledge Prejudice President Reversible
Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
GORDON ALLPORT

Consider Mindedness Occur Open Speak Stricly Virtue
Personality is and does something…It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
GORDON ALLPORT

Act Behind Does Individual Lie Personality Something Specific
Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
GORDON ALLPORT

Almost Always Bigot Extremely Patriot Super
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.
GORDON ALLPORT

Class Classic Comfort Ease Marry Normally People Plenty Prejudice
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 ALLPORT

Contradict Likely Nothing Noting Persuaded Science Step Stil Thesis True Whole Truth
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.
GORDON ALLPORT

Another Dying Life Must Suffer Purpose Tell
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
GORDON ALLPORT

Fact Generalization Given Large Make Rush Thimbleful Tub
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)
GORDON ALLPORT

Accept Citizen Desirable Set Goal Good Neighbour Parent Socially Specific Successive

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes