(December 17, 2013 at 4:54 am)Jacob(smooth) Wrote:(December 16, 2013 at 9:55 pm)whateverist Wrote: I'm always suspicious of people who think intelligence is a thing to have. Anyone who treats it as a settled matter doesn't have the patience for wisdom.
I like this a lot. Not sure exactly how wisdom would be defined in this context but it reminds me of a saying,
When a wise man believes himself to be a wise man, he becomes a fool. When a fool becomes aware of his foolishness he becomes a wise man.
The most staggeringly unintelligent people i've known have one thing in common, that they are sublimely convinced of their own intelligence. The cleverest people are generally humble about their own intelligence.
There is also third kind of people who try to look humble so that other people will think they are intelligent *cough cough*
