If you have to brag about how smart you are...you're not very smart at all

[Soph0571]

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[liberal N proud]

1. I work with just such an idiot

For the next week and a half, I work with a guy who claims he is so smart, always telling everyone he knows more about everything than anyone.

One day he was telling me he was an aircraft mechanic in the Marines, I asked him why he was not working for a local airline where he would make far more than his just above minimum wage. Shut him down right there.

[knightmaar]

2. If you think you're smart, you're not.

Dumb people think they're smart.

Smart people just wonder why everyone else can't understand things.

[greymattermom]

4. Smart people know how much they don't know

I've lived my whole life with very smart people, and none of them ever mentioned it.

[knightmaar]

5. It's true. We're never as arrogant as we should be.

[Left-over]

18. As a member of American Mensa...

Unless you attended one of the meetings of the high IQ society, you would never know who the members are. By and large, most are very humble about their gift. Also they come from all walks of life.

[lastlib]

3. now THERE is a TRUE stable genius!

Stephen Hawking doesn't have to talk the talk--he has genuinely walked the walk!

[Scarsdale]

6. Strangely, not one of

his offspring inherited his "genius". They all seem sort of dim witted, especially Beavis and Butthead. Ivanka has to resort to stealing other people's fashion ideas, how smart is THAT?

[Tipperary]

7. Kind of funny when I think how many IQ threads I have seen right here on du.

All posters who participate in such threads self-reporting exceptional IQs.

[Javaman]

8. ...

[Buns_of_Fire]

9. Brace yourself for the not-so-subtle John Holmes comparisons. nt

[Honeycombe8]

10. True! This has been my observation. nt

[PatrickforO]

11. The beginning of wisdom is knowing how little we really do know

But then, Trump's mouth seems to lead a life of its own.

"My IQ is one of the highest!"

Sigh.

[el_bryanto]

12. Thats why i am careful not to brag about my amazing intellect

Truthfully I am one of the smartest people there ever was - but I only let on once in a while, and always in private. I would never openly announce how very very smart I am.

Bryant

[Initech]

13. It's just like being religious or patriotic.

If you have to brag about these things, you're none of them!

[The Conductor]

14. Conductors Law

The old conductor's law:

- People who believe they are smart and actually are do not often get into trouble.

- People who are not smart and know that do not often get into trouble.

- Even People who are smart and believe they are not so smart do not often get into trouble.

- For round-the-clock, Jackass-style, hold-my-beer-and-watch-this stupidity, you need someone who thinks they are very smart, but are actually very not.

This is a direct result of the Dunning-Kruger Effect, as described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger. Their theory states that the cognitive bias of superiority stems from an inability to self-analyze, because the very skills necessary to evaluate their own competence are missing. From any evidence at all, does Trump seem like the sort who would have an accurate self image? I give you the guy who said about Puerto Rico: "This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water." Something an intelligent five-year-old would never have said, understanding that he/she would either sound like an idiot, or would be explaining something that anyone but idiots would already know.

Wake up and smell the covfefe, Trump is one dumb bag of hair!

[True Blue American]

15. Hair?

Trump does not have any,just like he is not smart!

I keep thinking of Tillerson’s wife telling him,” God was not through with him yet!”

He should take the SOS job. Wonder what she said when he was notified by tweet he was fired?

Is God through with him now?

[gordianot]

17. Excellent analysis but I would add one more observation.

On many levels Trump knows the truth about himself. As a child he was very embarrassed when he was required to read aloud in class something that he found highly embarrassing. Donald has spent his entire life trying to compensate he wears his ignorance as a badge of honor as he hides his reading disability.

[packman]

16. Mark Twain's quote applied to me

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

I was the smartest person in the world at one time, but the older I got I began to realize that my ignorance was profound.

[Permanut]

19. The difference between genius and stupidity..

is that genius has its limits.

- Albert Einstein

[Cha]

20. the mole is as stupid as a bag of

shite.. so, of course, he claims to be a fucking genius.

I cannot wait until he crashes and burns.. and his stupidity is on FULL DISPLAY.. as he takes his doormats down with him.

[dalton99a]

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