Smart people don't think others are stupid
<i>There are no smart people or stupid people, just people being smart or being stupid.</i><p>The same could be said about almost all behaviors, such as courage, promiscuity, or whathaveyou. However, over time people tend to display consistent patterns of behavior. As a consistent picture emerges, we tend to switch from thinking of people as <i>acting</i> a certain way, to thinking of people as <i>being</i> a certain way. Whether you want to say someone is acting stupid all the time, or someone is being stupid is just semantics.