Lewis Terman quotes

“We have seen that intellect and achievement are far from perfectly correlated.”
-- Lewis Terman

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1947). “Genetic Studies of Genius ...: The gifted child grows up; twenty-five years' follow-up of a superior group, by L. M. Terman and M. H. Oden”

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“There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,”
-- Lewis Terman

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“It is evident, therefore, that one of the most fundamental problems of psychology is that of investigating the laws of mental growth. When these laws are known, the door of the future will in a measure be opened; determination of the child's present status will enable us to forecast what manner of adult he will become.”
-- Lewis Terman

Source : Lewis Madison Terman (1919). “The Intelligence of School Children: How Children Differ in Ability, the Use of Mental Tests in School Grading and the Proper Education of Exceptional Children”

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“The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.”

“Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness”

“Today our achievements are so vast that the whole world has become interested in them.”

“Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.”

“Most people aren't unsuccessful in life because they don't know what to do. They are unsuccessful because they don't DO what they know how to do. Knowledge is power IF...you use it.”

“No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect”

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (p. 690), 1922.

“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”

Source : Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “The Wisdom of Life”, p.18, Cosimo Classics

“Will and intellect are one and the same thing.”

“The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth.”

“Faith is the heroism of the intellect.”