Gordon W. Allport Quotes

‘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.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘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

‘What is familiar tends to become a value.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘No corner of the world is free from group scorn.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.’ – Gordon W. Allport

‘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.’ – Gordon W. Allport