<p>I like nice people…but sadly i’m one of those smart people that can be an arrogant prick :(</p>
<p>Nice any day. That means I’ll be comfortable around you, and we’ll have a good time hanging out. As long as you’re not a complete ■■■■■■, and we have some stuff in common, being nice really is the most important thing in a friend.</p>
<p>Most of the smart people I know are very annoying, and think-they-know-it-all. Probably the trait I despise most in people is arrogance, so that is a huge turn-off. </p>
<p>And my smart friends, sometimes I CAN NOT STAND THEM. They are just way too intense, and competitive. They’re always like “What did you get on that test?” or whatever, and if I ever score higher than them they get mad at me. I mean, it’s nice relating to someone who cares about grades as much as you do, but still, sometimes they are just plain not fun to be around.
For example, when the class rankings came out, one of my friends comes up to me, and pesters me for 5 minutes to tell her what ranking I have. When I do, she says, “I can’t believe you’re ranked higher than me! There must be a mistake! I’m going to talk to my counselor RIGHT now.” <em>stares long and hard at me, huffs, and storms off</em>
I couldn’t help wondering if she wasn’t so smart if she would have the same competitive attitude.</p>
<p>For example, friend #1 is very nice, but not as smart and plans to head to community college. Friend #2 is very smart, and will apply to extremely competitive colleges, but is overly sarcastic (trying to be witty and failing) and sometimes just plain mean. I much prefer friend #1’s company.</p>
<p>Now, I have 1 or 2 friends who are both smart AND nice, which is really a winning combination :)</p>
<p>IMO, it takes much more of an effort to be nice. You can be born smart, but be an evil mastermiind. Being nice is something you work at, and are because you are a good person.</p>
<p>My friends are probably smarter than I am, but lazy as hell. They spend so many hours on wikipedia just learning about math/science/technology/random stuff. They don’t do any homework ever. I don’t understand them.</p>
<p>I don’t think you can be born smart. I’m a very pro-nurture person. </p>
<p>I don’t think you can be born a good person, either.</p>
<p>I prefer nice people. If i am in a smart people group, I feel an overwheling competitive feeling, that they make me an idiot. So i get nervous around them.</p>
<p>If I had to choose between smart and nice…I’d say nice.</p>
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<p>Wow…some nerdy friends…</p>
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<p>Agreed. Also, success is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration. </p>
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<p>Agreed as well. It’s all environmental factors. Parents, neighborhood, friends you grew up with, economic/social situation, culture, background, and maybe your personality can affect how “good” you are.</p>
<p>Smart boys
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<p>well you’re wrong 
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<p>Nice people obviously though…</p>
<p>Gimme smart people all day long. No such thing as nice people, people are nice only for as long as it’s in their interests.</p>
<p>"No such thing as nice people, people are nice only for as long as it’s in their interests. "</p>
<p>Well, yes, for about 99.9% of the world.
But yes, I definitely like smart, nice people. By “smart,” I mean intelligent but not too pedantic. (Arg, must…get…SAT…practice…out…of…head) By “nice,” I mean–pretty much all my friends are really sarcastic, but we stick up for each other. Hmm. Maybe not nice, but possessing of integrity…
Anyone else care to define what they mean?</p>
<p>Hmm. Do you mean honestly unintelligent people? I know very few people like that. My school is public, but you have to test into it and a lot of people get kicked out in the lower grades, so everyone I know there is pretty smart. And outside of there I mostly know people from ballet, which is very expensive and most kids there go to private school (there are 4 kids from my school and 2 from the performing arts school, which Nick Lachey went to btw) so even if they aren’t that smart, they have a good education.</p>
<p>So I don’t know. I think I like them about equally. But if someone is smart and not nice, I probably still like him/her, whereas if someone is not smart and not nice, I won’t like him/her at all.</p>
<p>I prefer a nice combination of both, not extremely smart, but also pretty nice, but between the two, I would rather nice over intelligent, but there’s one kid I know who’s pretty nice and honest, but his stupidity is so flagrant that it cancels out his niceness.</p>
<p>lol @ people in this thread thinking nice + smart is impossible.</p>
<p>I prefer smart people because with them you can think of really witty things to say about nice people… ;)</p>
<p>I like people that are nice and smart, its possible you know.</p>
<p>I’m not nice or smart so I have absolutely no friends besides the people I talk to at work and school just so that they can make the time pass.</p>
<p>I like responsible friends. I don’t care if they are nice or smart, so long as they don’t get us in trouble due to poor judgment.</p>
<p>Nice People with enough smarts FTW!!!</p>
<p>what’s nice? Integrity? Empathy? Selflessness?</p>
<p>Anyway, some smart people I know are not very “nice” in one of those ways, but can be in another. Some smart people are “nice” in a fake, selfish way which bugs me soo much. But they get what they want.</p>
<p>There are others who are honest and smart, but not <em>the</em> smartest. </p>
<p>So, you can be smart and nice, but do you mean <em>the</em> smartest as well as all kinds of nice?</p>
<p>^^^ The smartest people I know are beyond nice. They’re incredible. I’d swear on my life that a certain one of them will save the world.</p>
<p>But I must say, most of the really smart nice people I know are female. A lot of the intelligent guys I know are arrogant, but again, the very smartest ones are quite nice.</p>
<p>If we’re going to have a lasting conversation, smart. If we are meeting at a stop sign, nice.</p>