They may hear others views and opinions, and even taunts etc, but they are smart enough to form their own opinions in their own minds, especially following their own instincts.

Intelligent people are not-so-insecure to put aside their own boundaries, opinions, intuition and so forth, to fit in because the crowd does not agree.

 

They will stand up against all that oppose them, and they will do what they believe is the right thing to do based on what they know and not what others try to force them to believe.

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People who are told something that counters what their minds think, and then follow what they are told, are not intelligent. They cannot be intelligent because they just do as they are told, they believe what they are told, and they submit to other people’s opinions if what they assume is right and wrong. How can they be intelligent if they don’t think for themselves. It goes without saying that intelligent people think for themselves and then do what they think is right.

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When evidence is put before you and you see it and start to form an opinion on what you have seen, and then someone comes along and whispers in your ear that what you saw was really something else, then that is called brainwashing. Recognize this for what it truly is.