Daniel Tammet Quotes

Oh, I'm not a true genius. I'm a near genius. I would say I'm a short genius. I'd rather be tall and normal than a short genius.

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.

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

I'm a bordering genius.

Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

It is crazy. It's our first kid, and all of a sudden, she identifies letters as what they are, and you go, 'This kid is a genius - she's obviously some sort of savant!'

The smartest geek I know.

He was the smartest man I ever met.

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

I was a blond-haired kid with blue eyes, growing up in an Italian ghetto. I had a very high IQ. In elementary school, I skipped ahead twice. I was 10 years old when everyone else was 12.

I was always good at math, but I was good at everything. It sounds obnoxious, but I was just smart. In school, it's kind of obvious when you're learning things faster than other kids.

New York is a theme park for people with IQs over 108.

An amazing gift in a young child is, in some ways, an abnormality.

A photographic memory, to me, is kind of like brainiac, genius type. I don't think I have that.

Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.

Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, man - brilliant mind.

I don't like to say it, but I don't care, I'm a real-life genius.

probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone.

Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

Such is the vastness of his genius that he can outwit even himself.

The thing that most people call 'genius' I do not believe in.

Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.

There are three kinds of brains: One understands of itself, another can be taught to understand, and the third can neither understand to itself or be taught to understand.