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

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

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.'

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

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?

Love-incomparably the greatest psychotherapeutic agent-is something that professional psychiatry cannot of itself create, focus, nor release.