The IQ of a mob is the IQ of its dumbest member divided by the number of mobsters.
The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain.
'Stupidity' defines the mental state wherein we acknowledge that we've never been smarter as individuals and yet somehow we've never felt stupider. We now collectively inhabit a state of stupidity.
In certain countries, people seem to be think that three asses together make one intelligent person. However, that is completely wrong. Several asses in concreto make the ass in abstracto and that is a most terrifying animal.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
That's stupid." "That's people.
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Human stupidity is international.
Stupidity is sometimes the greatest of historical forces.
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
One person is never as stupid as a group of people. That's why they have lynch mobs, not lynch individuals.
An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.
A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
