“A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.” IfsMayLittlesPersonsSeemsJudgmentIntellectualImportanceComparisonFacultyLackingMoronImbecilesGood Judgment Book:Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920 Source: Significant contributions to the history of psychology: 1750-1920
“It seems to us that in intelligence there is a fundamental faculty, the alteration or the lack of which, is of the utmost importance for practical life. This faculty is judgment, otherwise called good sense, practical sense, initiative, the faculty of adapting one's self to circumstances. A person may be a moron or an imbecile if he is lacking in judgment; but with good judgment he can never be either. Indeed the rest of the intellectual faculties seem of little importance in comparison with judgment.” IfsMayLittlesPersonsSelfSeemsCircumstancesJudgmentIntellectualImportanceFundamentalsPracticalsComparisonFacultyInitiativeLackingGood SenseMoronAdaptingAlterationsImbecilesGood JudgmentPractical Life Author:Alfred Binet
“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.” IndividualMemoriesAttentionPracticeModernJudgmentTrainingIncreaseIntelligentMethodPhilosopherManageFixedProtestPessimismQuantityBrutalOur Memories Author:Alfred Binet
