Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.

Will Cuppy
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This is a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. It says that most people are not that smart. They are only smart in certain ways. They are good at math, for example, but they have no common sense.

Then again, some people are very perceptive and they have great common sense. Said differently, some people can do many things well but they cannot do them all well. One of the most important things about being smart is to pick one thing you are good at and stick with it.

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