Intelligence linked to association

[Trickster]

Many can think that if you hang with smart people you will be smart. Yet others argue that it will diminish you if you find someone smarter.
I believe that you will become smarter if you have a strong enough mind to realize that just because some is more intelligent than yourself that you doesnt mean they have a higher value. Intelligence may mean a powerful mind but if you cant realize how great and distinct your own if someone is better you might as well be dumb, meaning that you might as well not be intelligent at all.

[Sage]

I don't think it's so much intelligence as experience. Hanging out with people who have more life experience than you can make you smarter.

[Skeln]

Well, yeah it kind of makes sense because if you hang with a dumb crown then they will talk about different topics, and yeah then you get into the same habits as them, and yeah as the saying goes, "Birds of a feather flock together".