"...because I've been around long enough and seen enough to know that most people don't have as many questions as I do. Most people think they know things, and stop there. All I have is my ignorance, my curiosity, and an insatiable drive to eliminate the former by satisfying the latter. But each answer only opens up more questions--so as my knowledge increases, my ignorance increases exponentially. I'm getting more and more ignorant the more I learn. And that makes me smart."

I am an arrogant asshat. And amazingly richly geniusy. BIgly.

I know where my towel is, (HHGTTG)
I am wearing it because I can't find my pants, oh crap, now I have lost my towel.

I don't have a superiority complex. Sorry. I think everyone knows something someone else doesn't. I don't feel the need to boast about how smart I am.

@twshield I don't think I would say that. i've heard other people say it and it rubs me the wrong way. I am currently a country bumpkin visiting a big ethnically mixed city and I've seen homeless people among the population. I can't say I'm a better person than those I encounter at the bus stops with their few meager belongings and those huddling in tents on the side of the cemetary. I just can't believe that one human being is superior to another.

I actually take the time to think about stuff.

...because I am a textbook case of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

"smart" is a difficult thing to both quantify, and compare.

And I don't compare. Though I may be more enlightened about some things than others ...

Normally I don't, many times it's the opposite and I assume others are more intelligent than I am, especially online.
A high percentage of the people I interact with are college grads and have vastly more knowledge generally.
I suppose no one is immune to making a profoundly stupid statement occasionally though.

I only pretend to be smarter than other people. But don't tell anybody, ok?

I have been told I have an IQ of 142 and that average is 90-110. I was voted "smartest girl" in my engineering society. Still I don't generally assume that I am smarter than others I meet and realize that they may be more effective or knowledgeable in many ways. But having men dismiss me as "emotional" is going to get someone hurt one of these days...

I was born high IQ into a family of high IQ people, and had very high IQ kids.

Most of us have dyslexia, mixed gender issues, some are on the autism spectrum, and often have many smart people problem cliches..
we don't always relate well to most normal people, but more because we tend to gravitate toward people like ourselves,
we tend to look down on others,
don't notice anything except our obsessions,
only do things that interest us and ignore everything else,
not interested in whether others approve of us or not.

My son, with a 160 IQ, was terrifying, even while still in diapers. He thought his parents were absolute morons and we felt like morons around him. Trying to argue was useless. He would just march to the encyclopedias, yank one out, and point to where we were wrong on a date or location, or math concept.

He somehow knew stuff I still don't know when he was still a baby.

I know less now than what I new before. Too many question, and so few answers. I don't presume I am smarter. Thats a young man's game

I believe I am smarter than most people I encounter because my second grade substitute teacher marched me into the teacher's lounge to interrupt the principle to tell him that I was the smartest person currently in the room. So yes, I am definitely smarter than most people, but that doesn't make me better than them.

Finish the statement I shoot people because.......

"....I'm smarter than your average bear!" True story, ya know?

...I don't answer questions like this.

Because in my experience, most people tend to care more about whether their beliefs make them feel good, rather than whether they're true.

because - I think they are smarter than me

I just never know. I believe that there is always something I can learn from another. Admittedly that can be a challenge.

...............I is!

I can only afford to hang around places where people who are not even as smart as me hang out.

I am also better looking.

..."My name is Donald Trump."

because I see them in their natural habitats, oblivious to my judging.