What do you do if someone always show he/she know everything and act smart?

I"l just ignore them. I'll just wait for them to realize that they're not the smartest people in the world. One day the reality will slap them on the face and I guess that would be hard for them to accept. LOL. Goodluck to these people.

I completely ignore them and pretend that I am listening to them although I am not. it just does not make sense to listen to such foolishness.

Why would anyone want to hang out with an arrogant person? I would ignore this person and maybe even hang out else where. If this person gets attention he/she will just continue to act this way. If they are ignored perhaps they will begin to wonder why and maybe even change their ways.

I think that if we are around a person who acts like that a lot it can be a bit overwhelming. No one likes to be around someone who toots their own horn sort of speak. Especially if they try to outsmart and boast in front of others. There often times though happens to be a person like that in every group it seems. I think it would be best to just ignore the person. Slapping a person would only lead to more problems.

Just ignore, yes no violence please no slapping unless he/she lost her mind. Or tell her/him what is your problem, do you think we are idiots. Sometimes asking the person will wake him/her up in sleep of arrogance.

Arrogant people suffers from low self-esteem and try to make up for it by insulting good people like you. I had similar problem last year, and walked away - I cannot be associated with rude people. They sap all your energy and leave you negative and angry. Can you talk to the friend and tell him EXACTLY what is on your heart and how his actions makes everyone feel? If he change his attitude thereafter, that will be great. If he refuses to change, then you need to choose what you need from the friendship.... Hope this helps??

It is really normal to encounter people like this. I had an experience with a class mate who is exactly like this. She is very good in class and she always brag that she is good. She makes us feel that we are lower beings and she is the most intelligent person. Well, what we did is to study hard and I know she is good in communication but slow in computation. So I focused on those subjects that has computation. I literally studied 2 or 3 chapters in advance for this. So whenever, we had an exam and the professor will announce the result, her friends are shouting her name expecting she has the highest grade. And surprisingly, I always got the highest score. I just stayed humble as I don't want to be like her. Another approach is to honestly tell how you feel without being offensive. This person might not be aware about this. At least you were able to do something to change this.

Well.. there could be reasons while they're doing that. As for me though, I just try to understand them no matter how "know-it-all" they may seem to be and focus on their good aspects. I believe I'm not perfect as well and I am really immature at times. It's just that I keep on thinking maybe something made them like that. I do inform my friends though if they are already doing much.

i will ignore this person... if you show interest in what he is talking about, he would really think he is smart. ignoring will make him quiet.

I have friend just like that. And i don't know why I still consider her as a friend yet she's to arrogant and annoying and that irritate me so much. Try to confront her as what i did. Say what you feel everytime she do that. It's like you slap her 10 times. But if she still the same try to slap her once. Just kidding! Still try talk to her.

Hi, Oh, this type of people drives me to nuts, so I always avoid having conversation with them. They don't know how to stand being corrected. And keep on insisting that they are right, you can't say anything right either unless you agree with them. I hate backing down when I know for sure that I am in the right side but with these people I have to give way. That is why it's either I avoid and ignore them or have to fight with them.

The best thing to do is to IGNORE them. I don't like a self-centered person, so I managed to pull away myself from them. Have a great day!

I have a experience with this kind of person. When I was in university I had a close friend who always act like this, indeed he had attention but I really don't like. I always ignored him when he begun act like that. But I realized that he is my friend, I have to change my mind too not merely want he to change or ignore him. But until now I don't have a formula how to encounter him. I think he is only a sample of few habit that we don't like, and there are so much more. Finally we have to improve our self too,and began to learn to encounter many kind of people.

I have two of them on my own family members and the worse is one of them is our younger sibling well in fact a newly college graduate. She always tell me I am irresponsible child to our parents and the immature one and the irresponsible mother to my 2 child. I don't understand why she always like that to me she never even experience what I had experience for my past 31 years living the real life. She is still in the bloom of what really is life because she is a newly graduate. One time we argue about something and to make this story short because of anger I suddenly blurt out "Atleast when I am at your age I already got hired immediately even if I still has one last subject pending before graduating" I did not waste my time waiting for the next semester to enroll my last subject but instead while waiting I force myself to hunt for job and fortunate enough I was hired even if I am lacking of my credentials. I said Unlike you you are wasting your time laying around and waiting for someone who would help you get a job. Then that's what you called responsibility?? And mature enough? She can never even get a descent job for herself then she will throw me that irresponsible and immature personality? Playing smart but in fact she is not too smart. Some people are like that because they are too afraid to tell to themselves that they too have some weaknesses too afraid to accept the truth that they are "not that TOO SMART" for people that had a degree on a prestigious school in the Philippines.

Well there are lots of people who act that way and it is really quite annoying if you happen to encounter one. At any rate, just as you said slapping him is not advisable and you are just of course joking so indeed the best option is just ignore. Don't get affected at all because I believe that kind of person is not worthy of any kind of attention. If that person noticed that nobody is listening to him anymore I believe he himself would realize that there is something wrong with him and hopefully he would start assessing his own self that could lead to a better change.

I think it is better to just turn your back away from it. I mean, a person who thinks that he/she knows everything would never learn how to listen to what others would like to tell them no matter how much you try to convince him/her that he/she is wrong.

I absolutely ignore this type of behavior. They are doing it mostly for attention or to get a reaction, neither of which I will give them. I think the best thing to do is ignore them...

I ignore this kind of person. Just don't go to its level. You know what is right and let him just do his thing. In time, he will realize himself. Have a nice day!

If they are mean about it, I would ignore them. They may be telling the truth though, and it could be worth your time to fact check what they think they know so much about. If you find that they are wrong, you could prove them wrong armed with evidence and humble them. If they don't respond to this favorably, consider them full of feces and cut off communication. Find other people who know what they are talking about and are nice about it.

If the person has the authority to be smarter than me then i will just listen to him. For example, if the question is about health and the person who appears to be super smart and correcting all other peoples'comments happens to be a doctor then of course he has the right to act smart. Other people might just show they know everything because they are just willing to share what they know. But, for example, someone else corrects my opinions and insists that i follow his ideas then i just ignore him. Those are opinions and there is no right or wrong opinion. Or other scenario would be the person acts as if he knows better than you when you have the right to be better than him because in reality you know more about the certain topic. For example the topic is related to your profession, since you studied about it, the other person who absolutely know nothing about it should not act as if he is smarter than you. But then, to treat other people as an idiot would be not a show of intellect but ignorance,I guess.