Intelligence Quote by John D. MacDonald

The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.

— Terry Pratchett

“No one person is inherently more intelligent than another; we all simply excel in different areas of intelligence.”

— Siddharth Katragadda

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

— Dan Simmons

“Intelligence fails because it is human, no stronger than the power of one mind to understand another. (480)”

— Tim Weiner

“Intelligence is the ability to understand the problem and find a solution to that problem.”

— Awdhesh Singh

“Humans are distinguished further by the highly effective way in which they have pooled the individual intelligence of single individuals to produce a collective…

— John D. Barrow

“Individual differences in intelligence might to a significant extent be attributable to variations in the number and nature of such slightly deleterious alleles that…

— Nick Bostrom

“Intelligence is not measured by the mind's ability to compute, but by the heart's will to contrive.”

— Kimberly Stedronsky

To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Discrimination and segregation are evidence of lower intelligence.”

— Erik Martin Willén

“Why did the male IQ divide rather than multiply in groups?”

— Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

“The intelligence of that creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.”

— Terry Pratchett