I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.

Bill Watterson
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We tend to think of ourselves as being smart when in fact we're only superficially smart. We possess adequate knowledge, but in some areas, we have superficial knowledge. Being smart is not being ignorant. Not knowing something, on the other hand, is being ignorant.

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