Too Clever By Half, Can You Be?

[cronus]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

You'll never know.

[FBM]

Being aware of a large number of possibilities can be crippling and lead to prolonged indecision, in my experience. Unwillingness or inability to commit wholeheartedly to a particular "program."

[pErvinalia]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

You'll never know.

[cronus]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

You'll never know.

Too mice fell into a vat of milk. The smart mouse knew he'd drown in the milk, gave up. That mouse drowned. But the other mouse being dumb as shit....kept swimming around in circles in the vat of milk. After a couple of days the milk curdled and as it hardened into cheese he found he could climb on it and out of the vat. I'll keep swimming in circles and wait and see what happens....

[JimC]

Being vastly more intelligent than the intellectual pigmies that surround me has always been a challenge. I have met this challenge with dignified fortitude...

[Audley Strange]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

You'll never know.

Too mice fell into a vat of milk. The smart mouse knew he'd drown in the milk, gave up. That mouse drowned. But the other mouse being dumb as shit....kept swimming around in circles in the vat of milk. After a couple of days the milk curdled and as it hardened into cheese he found he could climb on it and out of the vat. I'll keep swimming in circles and wait and see what happens....

Pinky and The Brain, one is a genius the other insane.

I contend that "The Brain" is a megalomaniac who's plans always fail and thus he is insane, whereas Pinky is content and happy with his much simpler life and is therefore a genius.

Also are you turning into Yoda?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I think you meant to say, "whose plans always fail..."

[Hermit]

I think you meant to say, "whose plans always fail..."

I was wondering how many of Audley Strange's grammatical clangers you'd let pass before pouncing on one.

[SteveB]

I thought he was a righter or whatnot.

[Rum]

I'm sadly only too clever by a quarter.

[laklak]

.3127 to be precise, Captain.

[Audley Strange]

I think you meant to say, "whose plans always fail..."

Yes I did. Well done.

[Audley Strange]

I thought he was a righter or whatnot.

Yep. And when someone pays me to worry about punctuation, spelling and grammar on a forum, I'll worry about it. Until then you'll all have to endure my sloppy typing since I don't give a fuck if it bothers anyone.

[MiM]

Is it possible to be too smart? Too quick witted, and have too much knowledge?

You'll never know.

Too mice fell into a vat of milk. The smart mouse knew he'd drown in the milk, gave up. That mouse drowned. But the other mouse being dumb as shit....kept swimming around in circles in the vat of milk. After a couple of days the milk curdled and as it hardened into cheese he found he could climb on it and out of the vat. I'll keep swimming in circles and wait and see what happens....

Obviously your "smart mouse" mouse wasn't very smart. On the contrary he didn't know enough, and what's worse, he was way too confident in his own knowledge. This is a well known thing, usually referred to as the Dunning-Krueger effect. Dumbasses usually think they are much cleverer than they are.