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"I don't agree with her politics or social views but that doesn't make me smarter than her."

Actually, it might.

What is "smart," anyway? Anyone with a half-decent memory can tuck away enough snappy Oscar Wilde quotes to make himself look smart, and with the right tactics can appear to be winning arguments even when he's dead wrong.

But is this intelligence? Can a person really be called "intelligent" when he is consistently wrong on virtually every question of importance?

A good memory and verbal pyrotechnics can fool or intimidate a lot of people, but when I'm trying to figure out how smart someone is, I look at how often they're right on the big issues.

[GSlob]

"What is "smart," anyway? Anyone with a half-decent memory can tuck away enough snappy Oscar Wilde quotes to make himself look smart, and with the right tactics can appear to be winning arguments even when he's dead wrong.
But is this intelligence? Can a person really be called "intelligent" when he is consistently wrong on virtually every question of importance? "
Memory is not enough: if one had memorized enough quotes, one would still need to find an appropriare one in real time to make a repartee. And that would include serious mental processing, mere parrot could not do it. And as for being wrong: well, Aristotle was wrong on too many things to count, but that does not make him unintelligent.