Gordon Allport

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

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.