when your really smart, you don't need to quote brilliant thinkers or pretend you know what they mean, push facts, everyone knows someone who thinks there clever, who gives you that lil patronizing smile. that's not intelligence. you can't fake being extrodinary, you can't fake feeling and deepth and paitence, empathy, the ability to really listen, 
beckyuill:
This is true. admitting you don't know is something people rarely do anymore. thats just something i find kinda weird.
lauralily:
Too, too true.