Exposed Quote by Gordon Allport Download Open image “Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.” — Gordon Allport ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exposed Ifs Inspirational Knowledge New knowledge Prejudice Racism Thinking Thinking flexibly
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination. — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
To break down prejudice is to get to a place of understanding, that can erode the ignorance. — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it. — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred. — George Bancroft Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition. — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
“Prejudice is the pinnacle of self injected ignorance. It enables poor choices to be pre-chosen.” — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. A good parent, a good neighbour, a good… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them. — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell… — Gordon Allport Copy Share Image
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
We do not know which irresponsible Israeli prime minister will take office and decide to use nuclear weapons in the struggle against neighboring Arab… — Mordechai Vanunu Copy Share Image
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film. — James Nachtwey Copy Share Image
I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange… — Hamilton Jordan Copy Share Image
The headline here is not that a woman exposed a breast. It is, rather, that a breast exposed a woman. — Leonard Pitts Copy Share Image
Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
Politicians can forgive almost anything in the way of abuse; they can forgive subversion, revolution, being contradicted, exposed as liars, even ridiculed, but they… — Auberon Waugh Copy Share Image
When I resigned, I put the U.S. Government on notice that I'm going to stick to policy issues, that I have no intention of… — Scott Ritter Copy Share Image
I think clarity is the real risk in poetry because you are exposed. You're out in the open field. You're actually saying things that… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
I was lucky that I was getting exposed to a lot of different kinds of films, and I was liking them all. So it… — Steven Soderbergh Copy Share Image