Quotes About Mensa

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

People who are smart get into Mensa. People who are really smart look around and leave.

No matter his faults, no matter how he fucked her over, she had to have him. When a man was seen as a hero, no matter what he did, he was forgiven. Love blinded us all. I had seen undying loving in his son's eyes. I had seen confusion sparkle in M&M's eyes. My head was no longer clouded. Chris was not a king. Not a warrior. He was the court jester. He was a Mensa, but he was a fool. Even a well-educated man could still remain a fool. Educated fools filled the world.

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.

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.

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.

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

What really stopped me was that there was no way to try out for Mensa without looking conceited.

I haven't ever gone to any Mensa meetings.

I have an IQ that could gain me admission to the damn Mensa Society, but that's not what people see when they look at me. They can't see any of that. They can only see the color of my skin. They see a six-foot-five black man. They see someone they think might be armed and dangerous.

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.

She's very bright. Really very bright. I wouldn't be surprised if she was Mensa level.

I was always more street-smart than academic, as such, but I took a Mensa test once and did quite well in it.

Mensa does not permit applicants to take its IQ test twice, because the organization ascribes to the view that intelligence doesn't change much, so there's really no point in retaking it. Either you got it or you don't. And they require test takers to show a license or other official photo identification. That put a crimp in my plan to take the same test before and after my training regimen,

May I remind you, Howard, that mens means the mind and mensa means a table? But I expect in your case the two things are the same. No, no, don't scratch your head, boy. You'll get splinters.