Personality psychology is a multifaceted, ever-growing field of science. Here are a collection of quotes that have inspired the discipline to fluorish through the years.
“[Personality is] that which permits a prediction of what a person will do in a given situation.”
– Raymond Cattell
“[A primary goal for the 16PFQ self-assessment is to:] provide a thorough, research-based map of normal personality.”
– Raymond Cattell
“[Personality is] the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine [their] characteristic behavior and thought.”
– Gordon W. Allport
“[Personality is] the distinctive patterns of behavior that characterize each individual enduringly.”
– Walter Mischel
“‘Person’ is essentially different from ‘subject,’ since ‘subject’ is only the possibility of personality: every living thing of any sort is a subject. A person, then, is a subject aware of this subjectivity.”
– Georg W. F. Hegel
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
– Carl R. Rogers
“The human mind is generative, creative, proactive, and reflective—not just reactive.”
– Albert Bandura
“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
– Carl G. Jung
“Personality is, in fact, only a free being emphasizing and recognizing itself as such. Every man makes his own personality, he is to that extent his own creator.”
– Sabine Baring-Gould
“We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.”
– Albert Camus
“Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Personality is regarded as a collection of relatively discrete, independent, and narrow social capacities, each relevant to performance only within a specific domain of life.”
– David C. Funder
“Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself.”
– Albert Camus
“The more you know yourself, the more patience you have for what you see in others.”
– Erik Erikson