High-IQ Quotes

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 haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.

People of Bihar are the most intelligent people on earth.

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.

A .. characteristic of progressive politicians is that they tend to be high-IQ stupid people. They are bright and well-educated but can’t comprehend the implications of policy.

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

I tested in the top percentile for IQ, but I couldn't tie my shoes or really ride a bike without training wheels until I was almost 7.

I was quite disruptive and out there. Then I found myself in a load of remedial classes being told how to use a ruler. But when they tested my IQ, they found out I was quite intelligent.

I think one of the problems [with raising intelligent children] is compulsory schooling...and that children are sitting there and they are taught and told what to believe. They are passive from the very beginning, and one must be very, very aggressive intellectually to have a high IQ [...] the child is taught. Right from the beginning, it's a passive process. He or she sits there, and they simply try to believe everything they're told.

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.

In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.

My father was an odd stick. He was a member of MENSA and he was a uniformed yard cop for the Harvard police.

The original Greek word "idiotes" referred to people who might have had a high IQ, but were so self-involved that they focused exclusively on their own life and were both ignorant of and uncaring about public concerns and the common good.

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.

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

I was tagged early as the prototypical white player, the guy with the intangibles - the smart player, the guy who did all the right things.

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

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

I'd always been the genius of the family.

I think I have what a New York City point guard is made of: toughness, a lot of heart, and the ability to be a leader.

I think most people either forget or don't know that Microsoft only hires people with I.Q.'s well over 130.

A narcissist like Trump must constantly inflate and exaggerate in order to keep the supply trains running. He has to brag about how, 'I have a very high IQ' or concoct stories about people agreeing with him.