Do You Consider Yourself To Be Intelligent?

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I have never and will never consider myself clever. You get people who call you clever but thats because i know something that they may not know or may not know as much as i do in a certain field and likewise they may know something better than me which i may not know much of and it goes on like that. I believe there are people who have more common sense than others but I just have never managed to believe in the word 'clever'. Because you may be clever in one thing but be completely dumb in another so why should I call you clever. It would be more sensible if i say 'ah you are clever but only in this ceratin topic'. Worst is when i meet people who considers themselves clever just because of their academic grades and success. To those people I say 'Hey I know you can stick your head in a book all day but that does not classify you as clever'. I have actually seen and its something everyone knows that if you spend more time studying the subject you are doing than wasting your time with other things then obviously you will gain a better grade than one who hadn't put as much effort as you did, its logic. Right or wrong? Or have i gone completely off track?