Intelligence Quote by Laurence J. Peter

Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary.

— Lytton Strachey

“I agree with John Holt that the true test of intelligence is not what you know or can regurgitate from memory on an exam.…

— John Bradshaw

Intelligence is required to be able to know that a man knows not.

— Michel de Montaigne

Perhaps measuring animal intelligence by comparing it to human intelligence isn't the best litmus test.

— Ingrid Newkirk

School doesn't test your intelligence, it tests your memory.

— KM II

Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

— Diane Ravitch

Current intelligence-testing practices require examinees to answer but not to pose questions. In requiring only the answering of questions, these tests are missing a…

— Robert Sternberg

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

— Laurence J. Peter

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

— Keith E. Stanovich

Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate.

— George Carlin

I took a test once; they said I was a genius.

— Alex Honnold

Many much-learned men have no intelligence.

— Democritus