Smart People Dumbness
Comments discuss how smart individuals can act foolishly, overestimate their intelligence, or contrast individual smarts with collective stupidity, often referencing the idea that 'a person is smart, people are dumb.'
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A person is smart. People are dumb.
Ask not why some people are so smart, ask why so many are dumb. :)
The curse of smart people: they look smart but not really smart to realise that they are not smart enough.
"The people here are smart"The people here believe they are smart. Some are correct, others are not.
Or the people fancying themselves as smart aren't actually all that.
> People think they are smart
perhaps we're just not as smart as you. although for someone so smart, it's odd you can't reason about why people would make such statements.
Concluding someone is smart doesn't always equal admiring them.
It was 'smarter' than many people I know. Are they not thinking either?
Perhaps "people who thought they were smart"?