Failing Quote by Camille Paglia

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict…

— Diane Ackerman

“A failing grade does not denounce a child to fail in life. An IQ is what I would call an 'inadequate question', it may…

— Davis Carlson

“Being a genius doesn’t make you smart, happy, or successful. In fact, sometimes the opposite. Studies have shown that people with genius-level I.Q.s are…

— Nelson DeMille

“I’ve asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. “Of course it would.” The cultural correlation is undeniable: we’ve been indoctrinated to…

— Sean Patrick

A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the…

— Steven Brust

Sometimes when a person is over smart, it back fires and they end up outsmarting them self, a lot of them end up in…

— Glen Rambharack

IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on…

— Huey Newton

IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.

— A. N. Wilson

Some of the problem with IQ tests stems from the inescapable reality that human intelligence is staggeringly complex and multifaceted.

— David Olusoga

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

— Robert Kiyosaki

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…

— Christopher Hitchens

“We can quibble about what precise percentage of performance it accounts for, but no one can seriously question that smartness—the intellectual ability to do…

— Justin Menkes