Life is too short so we must generalize.

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

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

The specific goals we set for ourselves are almost always subsidiary to our long range intentions. 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)

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

Open-mindedness is considered to be a virtue. But, strictly speaking, it cannot occur. 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?

Life is too short so we must generalize.