“What’s the trick?”
It is easy. The trick is I am much smarter than you.

Never forget that your unconscious is smarter than you, faster than you, and more powerful than you. It may even control you. You will never know all of its secrets. — CORDELIA FINE, A Mind of Its Own: How Your Brain Distorts and Deceives

As a result of cumulative culture, we have ideas in our heads that are orders of magnitude smarter than we are.

I am very sorry, but I am infinitely more intelligent than these three professors, and I therefore refuse to be examined by them. I know more about Raphael than all of you altogether.

The question is, do we have to be ten times smarter than the competition? Absolutely not. All we need is the nose and the rewards are ten times bigger. It’s a lot easier to improve one per cent in hundred different areas than to improve hundred per cent in any one area. That is the winning edge!

Of course, I believe I have an unfair edge over most of my colleagues right now. My mind works faster than my mouth does. Washington would probably be a better place if more people took a moment to think before they spoke.

You know how I'm smart? I got people around me who know more than I do.

I'm cognitively very strong.

I’m so smart that I make everyone around me smarter. I do this by being dumber than everybody.

We are wiser than we know.

I'm just thinking too fast — much too fast.

There is a wide sweep about my mind. I am always above and beyond the preoccupation of most public men; I cover a ground much vaster than they can see. I cannot keep myself from saying about twenty times a day: 'How right I am, and how wrong they are.'

That makes me smart.

The power of human thought grows exponentially with the number of minds that share that thought.