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.
GORDON ALLPORTPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
More Gordon Allport Quotes
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.
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Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur.
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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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People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
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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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It takes a major unhappiness, a prolonged and bitter experience, to drive us away from loyalties once formed.
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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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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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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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The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
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Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
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The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer.
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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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Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
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