How Intelligent People Should Deal with Stupid People
Arthur Schopenhauer viewed intelligence as rare and suffering as inherent to human existence. He believed that most people operate on impulse, emotion, and automatic habits, while true intelligence—rooted in reason, self-reflection, and the ability to grasp causality—is exceptionally uncommon.
Accept Reality, Not Resistance
The core of Schopenhauer’s advice is accepting that deep intellectual exchange is impossible with those who lack the capacity for nuanced thought. Trying to reason with someone who cannot grasp complex ideas is not a failure of communication—it’s a mismatch of cognitive hardware. As Schopenhauer noted, “You cannot expect deep nuanced thought from someone who can only handle simple rigid slogans.” This acceptance liberates you from frustration.
Choose Your Battles Wisely
Instead of arguing, intelligent people should:
- Adjust expectations to match the other person’s mental capacity.
- Reserve reasoning for those who can receive it, not for those who will only react emotionally.
- Use silence or neutral responses when engagement is futile—this is not weakness, but strategic restraint.
Protect Your Energy and Integrity
Engaging with those who cannot think critically often forces you to dumb down your own ideas, leading to self-betrayal and mental exhaustion. Schopenhauer warned: “You end up defending a poor, poverty-stricken version of your own thoughts.” The cost of trying to enlighten the unwilling is too high.
Strategic Approaches
- Play dumb when necessary: Schopenhauer advised intelligent people to “play dumb” in social settings to avoid envy and resentment caused by intellectual superiority.
- Use irony and subtlety: A well-placed joke or indirect example can convey truth without triggering defensiveness.
- Withdraw gracefully: When a conversation becomes unproductive, disengage calmly. As Schopenhauer said, “You don’t need to stop every clock and reset it. You just need to know what time it actually is.”
The Ultimate Wisdom
The most intelligent response to stupidity is not to defeat it, but to avoid it. True wisdom lies in knowing when not to argue, preserving your clarity, energy, and peace. As Schopenhauer observed, “The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority, have always done just the opposite.” The answer is not to change fools—but to stop letting them occupy your mind.
What Does The KJV Bible Say?
Arthur Schopenhauer’s Philosophy on Dealing with “Stupid” People
Schopenhauer viewed intelligence as rare and isolation as inevitable for the thoughtful individual. He believed most people operate on impulse and emotion, not reason, making rational discourse with them futile. According to Schopenhauer, intelligent people should not waste energy trying to convince fools, as their minds are shaped by vanity, pride, and the will—forces that resist truth. Instead, the wise respond with strategic withdrawal, understated intelligence, and emotional detachment.
Key Principles from Schopenhauer’s View:
- Do not engage in arguments — Winning intellectually often damages relationships and breeds resentment.
- Withdraw with dignity — Like a watch that’s correct while all clocks are wrong, you don’t need to fix others’ errors.
- Seek intellectual equals — Build meaningful bonds with those who can match your mental pace.
- Use indirect methods — Wit, irony, and subtle storytelling reveal truth without triggering defensiveness.
- Protect your peace — The ultimate wisdom is avoiding pointless conflict altogether.
Schopenhauer’s Insight vs. Biblical Perspective (KJV)
| Schopenhauer’s View | Biblical (KJV) Perspective | Connection |
| Intelligence reveals truths others avoid — The wise see through social masks and illusions. | “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…” (Romans 12:2 KJV) | Both emphasize inner clarity and resistance to societal conformity. |
| Foolishness is rooted in vanity and pride — People resist truth to protect self-image. | “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.” (Proverbs 16:18 KJV) | Alignment on pride as a root of error and resistance to wisdom. |
| Avoid arguing with fools — It leads to mutual frustration and emotional harm. | “A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may know.” (Proverbs 18:2 KJV) | Both suggest futility in forcing understanding on the unwilling. |
| Silence can be wisdom — Not responding is a form of strength and self-mastery. | “Be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.” (James 1:19 KJV) | Emphasizes restraint and emotional control as marks of maturity. |
| Pity the fool — Stupidity is a form of suffering, not evil. | “And if one of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally…” (James 1:5 KJV) | Encourages compassion and seeking divine wisdom over judgment. |
Note: Schopenhauer’s philosophy is not directly tied to the KJV, but its themes—humility, self-control, truth-seeking, and avoiding pride—resonate with many biblical teachings. The KJV offers a moral and spiritual framework for dealing with folly, while Schopenhauer provides a psychological and strategic one. Together, they suggest: Do not fight the fool, but guard your heart and mind, and seek truth with grace.
As You seek understanding and clarity in your life you should always turn to your Heavenly Father for Guidance
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This is a major important point about forgiveness
Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift. -MATTHEW 5:24 KJV
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
I would start out by saying what Jesus Christ would want us to do? Pray and how should we pray? The Lord’s Prayer, and how often should we pray? Continually. Why do we use the Lord’s Prayer and not some other? The Lord’s Prayer covers all the areas that is important for our spiritual being.
When we pray the Lords prayer we ask to forgive our enemies, let God’s will be done, the kingdom to come. By praying the Lord’s prayer we let go of many thoughts we have in our head and give them back to God so we can have things revealed to us.
We must overcome resentment in our heart, and in a past video I shared about Dr. Jordan Peterson talks about how resentment can destroy us and we become our own very worst enemy and Jordan goes on to say that we must talk to people what we have resentment toward to overcome that resentment. Other people who lived in the past who talked about this is Jesus Christ and someone who is living now who talks about this daily is Brother Augustine, Dr. John MacArthur, Dr. Charles Stanley, Rev. John Piper and Pastor Paul Washer.
Women are looking for a fathers love
Women are looking for a fathers love. Its important that men understand women are looking for a fathers love and not get screwed. Woman more than anything are looking for a strong spiritual man to lead the future (the family). I think in many YouTube videos on biblical teachings, how young women are being hurt by men that are just looking to get laid instead of doing right and being in Christ and setting a good example of a strong man. We must be in Christ, hate no one, love all, forgave theses we resent, love what is right and support people who are walking with God.
Women need their fathers in their lives to be strong man to be good examples and not BETA men or weak examples of what a man should be. Its important that a man leads the way as Christ leads men, we as man need to fellow Jesus Christ to keep society from going to HELL.
Every day you can see or people watch how some men and women our living in hell without the right spiritual order then you will continue your hellish way according to 2 Peter. You can also find it in Romans. God will give you over to a reprobate mind.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient. – Romans 1:28 (KJV)
In Romans 1, Paul refers to something known as a reprobate mind. If you’re not familiar with the term reprobate, the literal definition in the Greek is failing to pass the test, unapproved, counterfeit.
Spiritual Order – In The Family and Church
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Here is Book, Chapter and Verse from the Kings James Version 1 Corinthian 11:2-16, But the main message is in 1 Corinthian 11:3: “3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.”
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How God Commands Us To Forgive Those Who We Have Resentment Toward.
All of us are tested everyday by our personal internal struggle coming from resentment of what happened earlier in our lives as children typically what our mother did to us, telling how our fathers were not good enough or driving us away from our fathers when we were children. We most go to the people that we have resentment against and forgive them. By forgiving our mothers or whoever we have resentment against, God will forgive us and we can return to the heavenly Father through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
It was said if you don’t love everyone then you love no one. People today live like the Old Testament people did. We must forgive and love everyone as God Commanded us to do according to Matthew 22:34-40.
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Its is said: Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 King James Version (KJV)
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