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November 11, 1897
American
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November 11, 1897
Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.
Gordon W. Allport
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
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
Philosophically speaking, values are the termini of our intentions. We never fully achieve them.
Gordon W. Allport
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
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
