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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
Personality is less a finished product than a transitive process. While it has some stable features, it is at the same time continually undergoing… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
A prejudice, unlike a simple misconception, is actively resistant to all evidence that would unseat it. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter. — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
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… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate… — Gordon W. Allport Copy Share Image
