Gordon W. Allport
Psychologist
1897-11-11
Quotes by Gordon W. Allport
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.
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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.
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Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.
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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.
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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.
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People it seems, are busy leading their lives into the future, whereas psychology, for the most part, is busy tracing them into the past.
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Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.
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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.
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Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing change.
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The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.
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So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.
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Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.
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A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it.
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Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.
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Given a thimbleful of facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
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The theist is persuaded that while nothing that contradicts science is likely to be true, still nothing that stops with science can be the whole truth.
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