A biography for Gordon W. Allporthasn’t been written yet.
“The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it.”
“The primary problem in the psychology of becoming is to account for the transformation by which the unsocialized infant becomes an adult with structured loves, hates, loyalties, and interests, capable of taking his place in a complexly ordered society.”
“Dogmatism makes for scientific anemia.”
“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.”