Author: 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.

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

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

- Gordon W. Allport

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.

- Gordon W. Allport

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

- Gordon W. Allport

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

So many tangles in life are ultimately hopeless that we have no appropriate sword other than laughter.

- Gordon W. Allport

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