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.

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
Save QuoteView Quote
Save Quote
Similar Quotes by 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
Save QuoteView Quote

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
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Gordon W. Allport
Save QuoteView Quote

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, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
Save QuoteView Quote

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

Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
Save QuoteView Quote

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, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality
Save QuoteView Quote