Robert Sternberg Quotes

I don't think anyone thinks that the SAT score is a measure of your innate intelligence. It is not. That is a fallacious concept, and we at Kaplan, and others who are in a position, should be out there making sure people know this is nothing, this score does not have anything to do with your innate intelligence.

The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.

Some people just don’t have high enough IQs to compete.

I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.

I was about nine years old when a teacher administered my IQ test. Unfortunately, as I was nine, I didn't know that I needed to keep the paperwork for future reference.

Human beings are accustomed to think of intellect as the power of having and controlling ideas and of ability to learn as synonymous with ability to have ideas. But learning by having ideas is really one of the rare and isolated events in nature.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.

I've got an IQ of 40 million.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap - it is all in the mind.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

To apply for a gifted program, children as young as 4 are required to sit through hour-long verbal exams.

The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.

We regard intelligence as man's main characteristic and we know that there is no superiority which intelligence cannot confer on us, no inferiority for which it cannot compensate.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.

All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also faster.

I'm not sure I'm the only savant with high IQ or with an above average IQ. Again, it may just be that we don't know very many of the others.

My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.

We tend to see individual differences instead of human universals. Thus, when someone says the word 'intelligence,' we think of Einstein instead of humans.

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

I can well imagine that certain writers, even writers that we'd consider today very great writers, may not necessarily have tested highly on IQ just because of their numerical skills, or maybe they may not be very good at memory, and are not particularly good at these kinds of tests.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.