“You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate.”

“Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.”

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

“I simply don't think it is reasonable to use IQ tests to produce results of questionable value, which may then serve to justify racists in their own minds and to help bring about the kinds of tragedies we have already witnessed earlier in this century.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

“Adam and Eve were still ignorant and new residents of Heaven, yet the tree was placed there to test their IQ level.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

“Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“We need to have the phone lines melted this week. We need people to melt the phone lines. Not to the House members, you don't need to call them, and you don't need to call the Republican Senators. It's the Democrat Senators that we need to melt their phone lines.”

Michele Bachmann (1956) American politician

“I don't care if I pass your test, I don't care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won't let you beat me unfairly - I'll beat you unfairly first.
- Ender”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

“Our society needs women to be more numerous in decision-making positions and in entrepreneurial areas. We always have to pass a twofold test: first to prove that, though women, we are no idiots, and second, the test anybody has to pass.”

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (1953) Argentine politician and ex President of Argentina

“Selfish— a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice.”

George Eliot (1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator