An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.

Laurence J. Peter
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You can never know how smart you are unless you try to do something that is beyond your experience. An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it. A man who takes an IQ test is only trying to better himself, and he might be better off without the test because he doesn't really know what his IQ is.

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