# Quote — Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence

> Feelings are self-justifying, with a set of perceptions and "proofs" all their own.

- Author: [Daniel Goleman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman.md)
- Book: [Emotional Intelligence](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence.md)
- Page: 295
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Daniel_Goleman#Emotional_Intelligence:_Why_It_Can_Matter_More_Than_IQ_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/feelings-are-self-justifying

## More from this book

> There is an old-fashioned word for the body of skills that emotional intelligence represents: character.

p. 285 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/there-is-an-old-fashioned.md)

> In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. These two fundamentally different ways of knowing interact to construct our mental life.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/in-a-very.md)

> IQ is a genetic given that cannot be changed by life experience, and that our destiny in life is largely fixed by these aptitudes.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-goleman/emotional-intelligence/iq-is-a-genetic.md)