Academic success Quote by Charles Murray

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities,…

— Daniel Goleman

I would say that IQ is the strongest predictor of which field you can get into and hold a job in, whether you can…

— Daniel Goleman

“And that is the problem: academic intelligence offers virtually no preparation for the turmoil—or opportunity—life’s vicissitudes bring. Yet even though a high IQ is…

— Daniel Goleman

“I’ve asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. “Of course it would.” The cultural correlation is undeniable: we’ve been indoctrinated to…

— Sean Patrick

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict…

— Diane Ackerman

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,

— Lewis Terman

“Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life. The brightest among us can founder on the shoals of unbridled passions and unruly impulses;…

— Daniel Goleman

“To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's…

— Rafe Esquith

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

— A. N. Wilson

“The “IQ fundamentalist” Arthur Jensen put it thusly in his 1980 book Bias in Mental Testing (p. 113): “The four socially and personally most…

— Malcolm Gladwell

Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.

— Alison Gopnik

Character is more important than intelligence for success.

— Gilberte Beaux