Quotes by : Gordon W. Allport

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

Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less....

The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for....

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

It is not that we have class prejudice, but only that we find comfort and ease in our own class. And....

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for....

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