Intelligence Quotient (IQ) Quotes

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.

No good-looking appearance would conceal low intelligence.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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.

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

Probably the smartest president we've had in terms of I.Q. in the last 50 years was Jimmy Carter, and I think he is the worst president of the last 50 years.

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.

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've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.

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

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.

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

I make fun of Mensa. I don't know a great deal about Mensa - that's the high IQ group - but I say, 'To get into Mensa, you have to have a high IQ, and once you get in, you spend your time congratulating people who are in Mensa with you.' To me that's a pretty stupid way to spend your life.

The relationship between heredity and IQ in human beings is well established. But that does not mean that if you have a group difference, an ethnic difference, that difference must also be genetic.

When student performance shows increases on test scores, that improvement is not associated with an increase in 'fluid intelligence' - that is, using logical thinking and problem solving in novel situations, rather than recalling previously learned facts and skills.

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.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

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.

I was a smart kid. I went to private school in middle school and got kicked out.

I grew up in an environment that promoted a very fixed mindset. It was an era that worshipped IQ and thought that your IQ was the most important thing in determining your future. My sixth-grade teacher even seated us around the room in IQ order.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

The real war is not between the West and the East. The real war is between intelligent and stupid people.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.