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Originally posted by Juge
"But in the meantime, most "educated" people cannot tell the difference between a fact and an idea, the most common confusion of symbol and thing. Most believe if they collect enough facts, this will compensate for their inability to grasp the ideas behind those facts"
Boy, there are a ton of people like this around. I'd say most college grads fit this discription, and what's funny is that they think they are smart...
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Some of the dumbest people are like this. This is because I believe the definition of stupidity is not how little you know, it is how large the gap between what you think you know and what you actually know is. No matter how smart you think you are, as soon as you act smarter than that, you are wrong a certain percentage of the time. The smarter you ACT, the larger that percentage becomes.