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Quotes About IQ

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.
~ Ann Coulter
My parents were very funny - they didn't know it. But they were. They were actually sharing an IQ.
~ Tim Conway
The latest research has revealed that women have a higher IQ than men.
~ A. N. Wilson
So in most people, all these intelligence genes add and subtract against each other, to result in, on average, a single IQ point. The intelligence genes do not determine your IQ.
~ PO BRONSON
I believe that good investors are successful not because of their IQ, but because they have an investing discipline. But, what is more disciplined than a machine? A well-researched machine can make many average investors redundant, leaving behind only the really good human investors with exceptional intuition and skill.
~ Stanley Druckenmiller
Success in investing doesn't correlate with I.Q. once you're above the level of 25. Once you have ordinary intelligence, what you need is the temperament to control the urges that get other people into trouble in investing.
~ Warren Buffett
The problem began with her height, which was too short to command respect, and was compounded by china-doll features, an oversize bust, and the kind of blue-eyed blondness that caused complete strangers to deduct IQ points and to speak to her slowly. Using really small words.
~ Wendy Wax
she hated that the dress would give the network an opportunity to deduct more IQ points, though why people seemed to think large breasts destroyed gray matter, she didn't know. Especially when it was clear that men often thought with their penises and bypassed their brains altogether.
~ Wendy Wax
Another interesting fact is people become more intelligent as they age, gaining about one IQ point every ten years. Against the stereotype, it's not all downhill after forty. There is hope for me
~ James Tagg
jennie confirmed my suspicions that television advertising is directed mainly at people with the iq of a pongid
~ Douglas Preston
A change in perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
~ Alan Kay
A 1960 study of the I.Q.s of those completing Ph.D. requirements in various disciplines showed that natural scientists are significantly more intelligent than social scientists (although chemists drag down the natural science averages and economists raise the social science average).
~ Alasdair MacIntyre
The single biggest advantage a value investor has is not IQ. It's patience and waiting. Waiting for the right pitch, and waiting for many years for the right pitch.
~ Mohnish Pabrai
I'm not angry or anything at Sonnen, but I will say one thing - I hope nobody gets offended; I don't wanna sound disgusting, and I am certainly not fan of any anthropologic theories - but you can see on that guy's face that he is limited and stupid, and his IQ is not higher than the size of the shoes he's wearing.
~ Mirko Cro Cop
To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important.
~ Rafe Esquith
because economic success in life depends in part on the talents measured by IQ tests, and because social standing depends in part on economic success, it follows that social standing is bound to be based to some extent on inherited differences.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
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
Costner's film captured the main character's motives, while removing 30 IQ points.
~ William M. Kucmierowski
Suicide - " jumps off his ego onto his IQ
~ David Grossman
IQ-ul nu înseamn? mare lucru, spusese el într-un interviu. ?i Goering avea un IQ mare. Po?i fi idiot ?i a?a.
~ David Lagercrantz
Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year.
~ Rex Reed
Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.
~ Dave Barry
I think the key indicator for wealth is not good grades, work ethic, or IQ. I believe it's relationships. Ask yourself two questions: How many people do I know, and how much ransom money could I get for each one?
~ Jarod Kintz
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.
~ Stephen King