Top 38 Quotes About High Iq
#1. In a high-IQ job pool, soft skills like discipline, drive and empathy mark those who emerge as outstanding.
Daniel Goleman
#2. 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
#3. there was no reason why having a high iq would somehow protect you from the vicissitudes of life
Douglas Preston
#4. Studies have shown that empathy is a vital life skill that helps determine our success even more than a high IQ does.
Kim Russo
#5. But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.
Francine Prose
#6. To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia.
Christopher Langan
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. When it comes to building character, wealth, good looks, athletic ability and even a high IQ are more likely to be impediments than advantages.
Michael Josephson
#15. If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
Jonathan Haidt
#16. The individuals in the high-IQ group might have scored better individually on intelligence tests, but when it came to solving problems as a group, diversity matters more than individual brainpower.
Steven Johnson
#17. Success in life isn't only for the gifted or the privileged or those with a high IQ. Success is totally dependent on three things: persistence, determination and a positive mental attitude.
Denis Waitley
#18. The typical white intellectual considers himself superior to ordinary white people for two contradictory reasons: a] he constantly proclaims belief in human equality, but they don't; b] he has a high IQ, but they don't.
Steve Sailer
#19. You may not be the person with high IQ, but you can be the person with highest hard work.
Amit Kalantri
#20. Obviously, I don't have a high IQ, but I've always liked nerds and quirky guys.
Kaley Cuoco
#21. 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
#22. Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.
Joseph Goldstein
#23. 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
#24. I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
Billy Corgan
#25. One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
Thomas Sowell
#26. Let it be your pride to show all men everywhere not only what good soldiers you are, but also what good men you are.
Woodrow Wilson
#27. When comprehending how different people truly are, you also comprehend the absolute necessity of some divine authority.
Criss Jami
#28. Let's just give her a ride into town," Suzanne said.
She spoke briskly, like I was a mess that needed to be cleaned up. Even so, I was glad. I was used to thinking about people who never thought about me.
Emma Cline
#30. High-tech companies like Google or Microsoft carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees out of the same belief: they are convinced that those at the very top of the IQ scale have the greatest potential.
Malcolm Gladwell
#31. An interesting one, this boy who looks like a Shadowhunter and speaks like gentry.
Cassandra Clare
#32. Donald Trump is redundant evidence that if your net worth is high enough, your IQ can be very low and you can still intrude into American politics.
George Will
#33. But if you really want to learn about life, get a cat. The way I think people should relate to animals is with a cat. Because the world is his.
James Cromwell
#34. I am a meat-loving Southern girl. Add in being a writer, and that means I drink more than I should, too.
Sarah Lacy
#35. There is an unusually high and consistent correlation between the stupidity of a given person and that person's propensity to be impressed by the measurement of IQ.
Christopher Hitchens
#36. Most people who have LLI do end up going crazy, Sofia ... unless they have a high enough IQ to handle it. You're one of those lucky few.
Bella Forrest
#37. Amy looked up at him. Their faces were very close. She remembered when those dark expressive eyes would make her quiver inside, when being this close would make her blush and stammer. Not anymore, though.
Jude Watson
#38. I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine.
Dean Koontz
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