Character Quote by Charles Murray

“It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!”

— Keith E. Stanovich

The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing about an individual as important as his IQ, except possibly his morals,

— Lewis Terman

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

“People who say that IQ is meaningless will quickly invoke it when the discussion turns to executing a murder with an IQ of 64,…

— Stephen Pinker

Even though a high IQ is no guarantee of prosperity, prestige, or happiness in life, our schools and our culture fixate on academic abilities,…

— Daniel Goleman

“It's hard to pin down what my actual [IQ] score might be. It's silly to think that people even have one set IQ and…

— Rick Rosner

“Einstein’s remark on the limitlessness of human stupidity is made even more disturbing by the discovery that infinity comes in different sizes. Answering ‘How…

— Bauvard

Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

— Simone Weil

We're in an era in which we want to believe people have roughly equal potential. IQ gives the lie to that.

— Marty Nemko

So there's much more to life than one's intelligence score. To be a decent human being. To have some character.

— Edward Zigler

The intelligence of an individual in not a fixed quantity.

— Alfred Binet