Raheel FarooqIdiots are of two kinds: those who try to be smart and those who think they are smart.
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This quote is pretty accurate. The majority of people feel that they are intelligent and that they try to be smart. Some people can fool themselves into thinking that they’re smart, but the truth is that the majority of them are really idiots.
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