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Top 15 Robert Sternberg Quotes (2024 Update)

Robert Sternberg Quote: “Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.”

1. “Success in life does not necessarily originate with academic success.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.”

2. “The essence of intelligence would seem to be in knowing when to think and act quickly, and knowing when to think and act slowly.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.”

3. “There is no recipe to be a great teacher, that’s what is unique about them.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can’t learn well that way don’t have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher’s teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.”

4. “In other words, if a teacher only teaches in one way, then they conclude that the kids who can’t learn well that way don’t have the ability, when, in fact, it may be that the way the teacher’s teaching is not a particularly good match to the way those kids learn.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.”

5. “And in order to succeed in later life, you need creative skills because look at how fast the world is changing.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions...”

6. “Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a vital half of intelligence- the asking of questions...”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.”

7. “The world supports a multi-million dollar industry of intelligence and ability research, but it devotes virtually nothing to determine why this intelligence is squandered by engaging in amazing, breathtaking acts of stupidity.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

8. “Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.”

9. “There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.”

10. “So, for example, if a child is labeled as having a learning disability, it has very concrete consequences for the kinds of services and potentially accommodations that child will get.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.”

11. “Well, first of all, we did lots of studies where we show practical intelligence doesn’t correlate with G. We have probably two dozen studies that practical intelligence better predicts job success than IQ.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.”

12. “I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

13. “But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you’re stupid, they have low expectations for you.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “If there’s going to be an SAT, it’s probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I’m sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.”

14. “If there’s going to be an SAT, it’s probably practical to invest in a book or perhaps in a course, but I’m sorry to say, I went to some classes that my kids took and it was clear in school that what they were doing was just SAT training.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.”

15. “You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.”

16. “If you’re not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can’t think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.”

17. “But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well.”

18. “I’ve taught statistics, math courses and what I’ve found is that often if you teach them algebraically the formulas, you’ll have one group of kids doing well.”

— Robert Sternberg

Robert Sternberg Quote: “And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.”

19. “And so, you can do hundreds and hundreds of studies showing a general factor and just so long as you restrict your populations, your testing materials and the kinds of situations you look at, you can keep finding the same wrong thing again and again.”

— Robert Sternberg

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