Personality Theory Quotes

“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

“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.”
― Gordon W. Allport, Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality

“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

“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