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Ouroboros24 said:

Throughout my life, people have said that I was smart.  I didn't think I were smart, but really was just knowledgable about the subject.  So, in response to when they had called me smart, I always told them I just happen to know about the subject. 

In my opinion, there's no such think as smart.  Even those with 150+ IQ's could be total idiots.  Idiotic by there actions, their choices, their believes, so on.  What we call smart is just too general of a discription.  Is smart the wisdom we use, the knowledge we know, the capability to retain information or maybe all of it.  

No, I make bad decisions, I don't know too much and years of smoking the mary J have ruined my recollection.  I am not smarter than anyone here that I know of. 

See, this is why I advocate the definitions I used in my last post.

If you already knew about the subject, then you're simply knowledgeable.

However, if you didn't know anything about the subject, but realized through reasoning and thinking certain important things, then that is what I refer to as intelligence.

People with +150 IQs are of really high intelligence if they got that score without practicing or in any way getting ready for an IQ test, or if they haven't taken "high" level math (cause in that case IQ tests are very easy).