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Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality QUOTES

Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality QUOTES

1 " 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

2 " 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

3 " 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

4 " 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