There's a corollary, too: It's amazing how many people believe themselves intellectually superior just for saying they don't believe what they learned in school.
Knowledge, or lack of it, is not a component of intelligence. Memorization != brain power. Superior intellect involves the ability to solve problems with existing knowledge, and to apply existing knowledge to new situations.
As a teen I was able to use basic knowledge and evolve it by using just logic. The only problem was that logic doesn't apply to Judeo-Satanists because they are degenerates, so if you are unaware, your logic is not enough without real knowledge.
Right. It's amazing how few people are able to comprehend an underlying principle and apply it to new situations. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of people who get some kind of bizarre underlying principle and apply it, but it's unusual for it to be correct.
To make an absurd example to illustrate the point, imagine a dude learns in school how to use screws. They probably won't teach him the principle by which screws work. He'll just learn that screws hold things together and you need a screwdriver to tighten/loosen it. An intelligent person will see the threads and figure out how a screw works really quickly. If he is trying to attach something to a crumbly plaster wall he'll probably have an intuition that it's not going to work very well. He'll probably realize that the load is going to be distributed across the thread surface, but that the plaster is not up to the task. He'll figure out he needs to find studs or maybe attach a cleat first and then anchor the screw to that. All of this without being taught it. It's just knowledge synthesized from other knowledge purely by critical thinking.
The less intelligent guy will probably not figure it out ahead of time if no one directly taught him because he never noticed or thought about how a screw works. He may go right ahead and attach a cabinet to the wall plaster without a second thought until it comes crashing down.
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