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The ability to realize one does not know things actually takes a lot of intelligence. It is very often the opposite of dumb.

A lot of intelligence? I know there are lots of things I don't know, and I even know what a lot of those things are, but I don't know that this really takes a lot of intelligence.

Compared to a clam, maybe. I am definitely smarter than a clam. Probably.

Depends on the clam!

>"I am definitely smarter than a clam. Probably."

I admire your defensive use of 'probably', as clams can contain pearls of wisdom.

I think the person who knows and accepts they don't know things, and more importantly will refrain from opoining on those things is more wise than the average person. Maybe not more intelligent but definitely more wise

And yet not learning is dumb.

That is a function of what is being learned, no?

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