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You don’t date your doctor. If you did she’d probably belittle you for being stupid compared to her.

Seems intelligent people are super judge mental and best avoided

People here saying such things. If you don’t know what they do your seen as less intelligent or stupid.

Stop being judgemental of intelligent people. They're not all monsters.

Hey, those are pretty good ideas!

All the ones I’ve meet and seen look down on others for being slightly less intelligent.
Having fancy grammar or a PhD or college degree doesn’t make you more intelligent or better then others.

I agree.

There are many different sorts of "intelligence."

Sly: you should read up on Gardner's notion of "Multiple Intelligences."

I'm not particularly smart in philosophy---but I'm somewhat intelligent in history.

I suck at fixing things---but I'm pretty good at researching the Internet.

We all have different capabilities. The key, really, is for people to complement (not necessarily compliment) each other, rather than constantly fight with each other. "Complement" means to blend different abilities into a very efficient whole. For example, a financially savvy man and a creatively savvy women would go well together---because it's "the best of both worlds." You have a Renaissance person with that combination.

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The really smart ones know that using fancy words doesn't prove you're smart. Look at Richard Feynman for example.
He was smarter than all the know-it-all jerks who ever insulted you with fancy grammar and yet he always spoke plainly.

Yes he wrote the most beautiful thing I have ever read!

‘She said “Look at how pretty the stars shine!” He said, “Yes, and right now I am the only man in the world who knows why they shine.” She merely laughed at him. She was not impressed with being out with the only man who, at that moment, knew why stars shine.

Well, it is sad to be alone, but that is the way it is in this world.’

Go for the type of intelligence that complements you, and that you find attractive. I know what I like and don’t like, and everyone deserves that same right.

Just because some highly educated/otherwise very booksmart people say that to others doesn't mean they're all like that. Its the same as if an NT was treated very badly by all/most autistic people he/she knows and then started to tell people how horrible all/most autistic people are and that they should be avoided.

What’s the problem? Why not become book smart? U can clearly read and write.

Maybe some people aren't interested in being book smart? That's a lot of work, which many folks find utterly tedious. Forcing yourself to be something you're not is a great way to end up with an existential crisis.

So what would be wrong if a book smart person was looking for another book smart person, not a one uninterested in being book smart?

The people who don’t see the merits of education are the ones who would most likely benefit from education.
Doesn’t that sound condescending! (let’s hope I spelt that right).

I forget most stuff I read. And have a hard time reading books in the first place, just to forget 90% of it.
I don’t remember much of what I learned in college 5 years ago.

I ought to be book smart, I'm surrounded by my books, 1760 at last count, but I'm always having to have things explained to me that are obvious to everyone else. People know different things, I'm a writer with a lot of interest in history, so it would be great to meet someone with an interest in history, but I wouldn't think they were unintelligent if they knew less than me. It might not have taken them 4hrs to work out how to get avatar on their wp account, for example If they knew more about writing, I think that would pi*s me off, it's the one place that I shine.