On a flight of emotion there's wonder and bliss, but beware of a landing that may go amiss.
The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.
People who are aware of, and ashamed of, their prejudices are well on the road to eliminating them.
Personality is and does something. . . It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual
Many studies have discovered a close link between prejudice and "patriotism". . . Extreme bigots are almost always super-patriots.
If a person is capable of rectifying his erroneous judgments in the light of new evidence he is not prejudiced. Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are reversible when exposed to new knowledge. A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. We tend to grow emotional when a prejudice is threatened with contradiction. Thus the difference between ordinary prejudgments and prejudice is that one can discuss and rectify a prejudgment without emotional resistance.
Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.
The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
The body has an enormous power of healing, if you really believe you are going to be healed, you're going to be healed. If you really believe you're going to die, you're going to die. If you apply this kind of method to everything, then there is hope.
I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.
The business of government is justice.