Top 100 Iq Quotes
#1. Every bullshit check out, read and watched makes me few percentage stupid and few with a lower IQ. So far you make your own judge!
Deyth Banger
#2. crapulent buffoon with the IQ of a tampon.
John Niven
#3. even if high-IQ people do better than low-IQ people when first trying a task that's new to them, the relationship tends to get weaker and may eventually disappear completely as they work at the task and get better at it.
Geoff Colvin
#4. Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.
Joseph Goldstein
#5. A person's "like" pattern even makes a decent proxy for intelligence - this model could reliably predict someone's score on a standard (separately administered) IQ test, without the person answering a single direct question.
Christian Rudder
#6. Even my pathological love of Japan and its beauties, glories and eccentricities is sorely tested by 'The Grudge 2,' from Takashi Shimizu, a movie so bewildering and impenetrable that I believe it siphoned off a good 40 IQ points.
Stephen Hunter
#7. Atlanta Journal-Constitution columnist Colin Campbell says that every member of the Georgia General Assembly with an IQ above 85 should be required to wear a crash helmet. That should take about ... oh, say 15 helmets?
Neal Boortz
#8. C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.
Tom Christiansen
#9. I'm brighter when I'm not drunk; when I'm drunk, I lose part of my IQ.
Gaspar Noe
#10. My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.
Dick Cavett
#11. Get your butt over there and start reading before I beat you with my Rod of Time. (Sin)
I can think of much better things to do with your rod than beat me, baby. (Kat)
Aww, gawd, we've degenerated into really bad punage. I yield. Save me before my IQ points are damaged. (Sin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Before you're allowed to own a .44, your IQ should be higher than .44.
Quentin R. Bufogle
#13. If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap.
Martin Rees
#14. Commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.
Bob Costas
#15. His pretty face could not make up for the fact that he had the IQ of a dead houseplant and the emotional range of a frozen pea.
Shayla Black
#16. I owe everything to golf. Where else could a guy with an IQ like mine make this much money?
Hubert Green
#17. The effectiveness of a group of people is not determined by their IQ but by how well they communicate.
David Brooks
#18. I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.
Daniel Tammet
#19. IQ is a measure, to some degree, of innate ability. But social savvy is knowledge. It's a set of skills that have to be learned. It has to come from somewhere, and the place where we seem to get these kinds of attitudes and skills is from our families.
Malcolm Gladwell
#20. On the bright side, my slightly lower IQ means that I probably have worse recall. Maybe I'll soon forget that I have a depressed IQ.
A. J. Jacobs
#21. There are a lot of people who have a high IQ, but if they don't work hard, then their intelligence does them absolutely no good. Average people win by putting in an above-average effort.
Eric Laughton
#22. Knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys.
Malcolm Gladwell
#23. Moore's Law of Mad Science: Every eighteen months, the minimum IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#24. I'm nothing but envious that you've been happily married for two years. Try hauling your cookies on a new blind date every Friday, only to have your, already extremely low, expectations dashed as you meet men who look like Quasimodo and have Homer Simpson's IQ.
Jane Green
#26. If it wasn't for golf, I don't know what I'd be doing. If my IQ had been two points lower, I'd have been a plant somewhere.
Lee Trevino
#27. The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.
George Carlin
#28. My mother belonged to that group of low IQ individuals who find everything alarming and believe that raising your voice is the most effective form of communication.
Annabelle R. Charbit
#29. I was dyslexic, I had no understanding of schoolwork whatsoever. I certainly would have failed IQ tests. And it was one of the reasons I left school when I was 15 years old. And if I - if I'm not interested in something, I don't grasp it.
Richard Branson
#30. I keep forgetting your IQ is higher than my bank balance."
"That's not saying much.
Darynda Jones
#31. Rather than fretting about IQ scores, voters should try to determine what candidates read - other than the Bible, which they all say they read - and the kind of people with whom they spend their time.
Jack Germond
#32. 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.
Jim Hightower
#33. It was a little insulting to admit that a drooling dolt like Coulter might be right about something, but after all, Isaac Newton didn't reject gravity just because the apple had a low IQ.
Jeff Lindsay
#34. Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
Carl Hiaasen
#35. Jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid
Douglas Preston
#36. Since I enjoy intelligent conversation, I generally want an IQ that's larger than the bra size."
"So, if I'm a drooling idiot, you'll leave me alone?
Ann Bruce
#37. study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test.
David Rock
#38. I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.
Tim Berners-Lee
#39. The soldiers currently manning our sophisticated weaponry have room temperature IQ's.
G. Gordon Liddy
#40. Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
Jeffrey Kluger
#41. Sometimes I wish I had a lower IQ so I could enjoy your company.
Ilsa Madden-Mills
#42. When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.
Frederick Lenz
#43. The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good person, I think I actually became a little bit better of a person. I'm not Gandhi or Angelina Jolie, but it was a baby step.
A. J. Jacobs
#44. In my view, ideas and other intellectual productions are more interesting, more indicative of intelligence, and more productively debated than IQ alone.
Christopher Langan
#45. That it is statistically easier for low-IQ people to kick an addiction than it is for high-IQ people ... That boring activities become, perversely, much less boring if you concentrate intently on them.
David Foster Wallace
#46. Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige,
or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on
academic abilities, ignoring the emotional intelligence that also
matters immensely for our personal destiny.
Daniel Goleman
#47. The kicking and punching stopped only when it became apparent that all the mob was attacking was itself. And, since the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters, it was never very clear to anyone what had happened.
Terry Pratchett
#48. Obviously, you check tht she's safe, she's clean, got all the fingers and toes, like that's going to help them through life. It'll help them walk, but you can't pull them out and check their IQ or anything.
Matthew Ashford
#49. I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.
Deyth Banger
#50. You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
Nolan Bushnell
#51. In modeling, the colour of a man's teeth is more important than his IQ.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#52. If you could multiply what you know in your head and your heart, your IQ and EQ, by the power of everyone you've ever e-mailed or could contact by social media and other technology, what would you do?
Erica Dhawan
#53. The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
A. N. Wilson
#54. One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.
Vincent Bugliosi
#55. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
Gary Hamel
#56. One lost an IQ point for every year spent on the West Coast
Truman Capote
#57. Right now I don't have patience to deal with people who IQ lands on the right side of the decimal point.
Suzanne Wrightt
#58. Life is a balance between emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) and intelligence quotient (IQ).
Amit Ray
#59. It's always good to have the building filled - even if it's with low-IQ Rangers fans.
Mike Milbury
#60. 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.
Daniel Tammet
#61. When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.
Ani DiFranco
#62. IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.
Daniel Goleman
#63. I have an IQ of about 160, I taught science for about fifteen years ...
Kent Hovind
#64. 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.
Eric S. Raymond
#65. POPPY (on her mother not breastfeeding her during infancy): If you had breastfed me, it might have increased my IQ, and I'd have a lot of pressure to succeed. My average IQ means I can simply coast through life, so thank you.
Bijou Hunter
#66. It doesn't take any special training to ask the right question. Nor does it require a high IQ. The only real resource required to ask what people might love is time.
David Sturt
#67. You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.
Nathaniel Philbrick
#68. Comedy doesn't makes your IQ higher....
...
Read Science... and don't re-read books for higher IQ!
Deyth Banger
#69. A handful of gems from Somni:
"One's environment is a key to one's identity."
"An impulse can be both vaguely understood and strong."
"What is knowledge for, if not used to better our/one's existence?"
"My IQ may be higher but she looked more content then I felt.
David Mitchell
#71. For lack of a few pinches of ordinary iodised table salt in the diet of a third world pregnant mother, a child can lose up to ten IQ (Intelligence Quotient) points.
Sheryl WuDunn
#72. Clearly drive, IQ, and hard work are incredibly important. But ultimately what matters most is resilience
the ability to quickly rebound from failures, indeed to see failure as a stepping stone to success.
Arianna Huffington
#73. You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.
Warren Buffett
#74. Microsoft has long hired based on IQ and "intellectual bandwidth."
Bill Gates
#75. You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.
Mark Pryor
#76. Anyone who has a two hundred-plus IQ runs the risk of just hanging out because you get too involved in your own thoughts and you just want to sit there and think about .
Brandon Stanton
#77. The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.
Eli Broad
#78. I think some people's comedy IQ's aren't as high as other people's, so they don't really know what's going on. Or they think they know what's going on, but they don't really.
Judah Friedlander
#79. I see you finally got a number to match your IQ.
Bob Marley
#80. Organisations often appoint leaders for their IQ. Then, years later, sack them for their lack of EQ (Emotional Intelligence). Common Purpose argues that in the future they will promote for CQ - Cultural Intelligence.
Julia Middleton
#82. We have the media, which is such a waste in the sense that you can actually feel your IQ get lower as you watch TV.
Michio Kaku
#83. Andy Warhol is the only genius I've ever known with an IQ of 60.
Gore Vidal
#84. I like Florida. Everything is in the 80s. The temperatures, the ages and the IQ's.
George Carlin
#85. People with a growth mindset believe that they can improve with effort. They outperform those with a fixed mindset, even when they have a lower IQ, because they embrace challenges, treating them as opportunities to learn something new.
Travis Bradberry
#86. You should get a better boyfriend. One with an IQ higher than a turnip.
Robyn Carr
#87. 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.
Daniel Tammet
#88. If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.
Maya Angelou
#89. In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with IQ. Also, the idea that intelligence can be gauged by an IQ test is erroneous.
Camille Paglia
#90. I don't know, and have no intention of finding out. IQ is like dick size - if you have to measure, you're way too invested in it. And both are gauche to discuss in polite company. (Upon being asked his IQ on Quora)
Adrian Lamo
#91. When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies.
Everett Dirksen
#92. I drive a tiny Toyota iQ. I'm quite frugal and often cut my own hair.
Carol Vorderman
#93. My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.
Tim Conway
#94. One harder than the one before it, and IQ is calculated based
Malcolm Gladwell
#96. 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.
Bjarke Ingels
#97. To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
Christopher Langan
#98. To invest successfully over a lifetime does not require a stratospheric IQ, unusual business insights, or inside information. What's needed is a sound intellectual framework for making decisions and the ability to keep emotions from corroding that framework. You must supply the emotional discipline.
Warren Buffett
#99. The high IQ has become the American equivalent of the Legion of Honor, positive proof of a child's intellectual aristocracy ... It has become more important to be a smart kid than a good kid or even a healthy kid.
Sam Levenson
#100. The author found participants in a study able to come up with more reasons to support their position but not anymore likely to change their minds based on contradictory evidence. In effect, they enlist their IQ on behalf of their instincts.
Jonathan Haidt
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