Walter O'Brien Quotes

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

If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don't need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

Frankly, the reason I joined MENSA is because I was dating a guy at the time who spoke five languages and could solve a Rubik's Cube literally with his eyes closed because it's just an algorithm.

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

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.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.

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.

He was the smartest man I ever met.

No one, however smart, however well educated … is the suppository of all wisdom.

I'm pretty sure there is some genetic component towards intelligence.

I'm a bordering genius.

People around the NBA really think that I'm dumb or stupid. But people that know me know that I'm actually very intelligent.

I like players that play off IQ.

We all know LeBron's IQ is on another planet.

I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years.

In the U.S., blacks are 12% of the population but commit 50% of violent crimes; can anyone honestly think this is unconnected to the fact that they average 15 points of IQ lower than the general population? That stupid people are more violent is a fact independent of skin color.

What’s burning?” “Your brain.

And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

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.