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To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

~ Gordon W. Allport

Gordon W. Allport Becoming Future Personality Personality Theory Possibility Psychology Science

Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.

~ Gordon W. Allport

Gordon W. Allport Becoming Personality Personality Theory Possibility Psychology

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better and better problems.

~ Gordon W. Allport

Gordon W. Allport Becoming Personality Personality Theory Possibility Psychology

People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.

~ Gordon W. Allport

Gordon W. Allport Becoming Personality Personality Theory Possibility Psychology

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

~ Gordon W. Allport

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It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And normally there are plenty of people of our own class, or race, or religion to play, live, and eat with, and to marry.

~ Gordon W. Allport

Gordon W. Allport People Live Comfort

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is knowledge of our own uniqueness that supplies the first, and probably the best, hints for acquiring orderly knowledge of others.

~ Gordon W. Allport

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