Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

Since we think about ourselves so much of the time, it is comforting to assume ... that we really know the score.... [But] this is not an easy assignment. [As] Santayana wrote, 'Nothing requires a rarer intellectual heroism than willingness to see one's equation written out.'

Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.

Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism" . . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.

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

Thwarted lives have the most character-conditioned hate

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