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?
Gordon AllportEach person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
Gordon AllportPeople who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Gordon Allport