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Okay, first hit: "Dad always said that you can always tell an idiot... but you can't tell him much." Works for my point just as well as "bigot", I suppose.

Hint: "You can always tell a XXXXX, but you can't tell him much" is a stock construction. It most certainly is not used to indicate that XXXXX has superior powers of reasoning.



I was going the other direction, and that is somewhat meaningful. That is, a well educated person, e.g., from Harvard, is skeptical.




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