Lewis Terman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Achievement #Intellect
There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,
-- Lewis Terman

#Important #Moral #Individual
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

#Determination #Children #Law

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

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