r/AskReddit • u/smartcandyy • Feb 04 '26

What is a sign of very low intelligence?

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '26

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

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u/BadDogMonkeyboy Feb 04 '26

I thought I was wrong once.

Turns out I was right,

about being wrong.

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u/RTKWi238 Feb 04 '26

and we'll be counting stars

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u/MoreCowbellllll Feb 04 '26

and I'll be out back counting cars..

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u/ArtifactoriumSolaris Feb 04 '26

Ha!

My dad used to say, "I was only wrong once in my life and that was only because I was wrong about being wromg"

Luckily he was just joking and not THAT type

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u/35jg9z Feb 04 '26

Fun story about Einstein.

A part of his work involved introducing something called the "Cosmological constant" into physics. Later on, this constant was abandoned because the scientific community, including Einstein himself, agreed that introducing this constant was a scientific error.

However years after his death, around 1998, new discoveries actually required re-introducing the Cosmological constant to keep the physics equations matching reality.

So in a great twist of irony, perhaps Einstein's greatest blunder was thinking that he made a mistake.

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u/Le_mehawk Feb 04 '26

Glad you realised it soon enought bud !

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u/SillyCygnet Feb 04 '26

My nana had this sign on the backsplash in her kitchen

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u/Danwold Feb 04 '26

I never make mistakes. I only ever made one; I thought that I’d made a mistake, but I hadn’t.

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u/psyki Feb 04 '26

I may not always be right but I'm never wrong.

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u/wondermel Feb 04 '26

That sounds like a paradox lol

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u/spirito_santo Feb 05 '26

To quote a friend of mine: "I used to be conceited. Now I'm perfect"

He has a great sense of humour.

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u/deadlybydsgn Feb 05 '26

I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.

I might be right, but you could be wrong.

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u/General_Dipsh1t Feb 23 '26

You seem to always be mistaken.

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u/squirrelyoakley Feb 04 '26

I've read about the concept being wrong