Gordon W. Allport

“Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his unique adjustments to his environment.”

“Reason by itself is only a tool, it will not tell you where to go.”

“The outlines of the needed psychology of becoming can be discovered by looking within ourselves; for it is our own nature that we are trying to understand.”

“The mature personality is not only capable of withstanding stress but also of seeking it out.”

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

“The same fire that melts the butter hardens the egg.”

“To understand what a person is, it is necessary to know what he is trying to become.”

“Prejudice is a burden which confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.”

“A man's religion is the audacious bid he makes to bind himself to creation and to the creator. It is his ultimate attempt to enlarge and to complete his own personality by finding the supreme context in which he rightly belongs.”