It's important to be smart, but it's also important to be active with your intelligence. The more you sit around over-thinking things, the more trouble you get into.

We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are.

Oh, yes. I'm terribly smart. Wouldn't it have been nice... to be intelligent?

Smart means having intellectual humility rather than high cognitive ability.

If there are as many connections in your brain as there are stars in the universe, why ask for superpowers?

While we may continue to use the words
smart and stupid, and while IQ tests may
persist for certain purposes, the monopoly
of those who believe in a single general
intelligence has come to an end. Brain
scientists and geneticists are documenting
the incredible differentiation of human capacities, computer programmers are creating systems that are intelligent in different ways, and educators are freshly acknowledging that their students have distinctive strengths and weaknesses.