In the third episode or the second season of White Collar, the conman Neal Caffrey said to one kid with a bloated ego: "never think you're the smartest guy in the room, unless you are the smartest guy in the room."
I would rather say even if you think you're the smartest in the room, it's always good to be modest about it, not because you don't know a lot, or you aren't as smart, but knowing that you cannot be smarter than everyone at everything; none is.
Given our society's adversarial nature and how competitive we tend to be, it wouldn't be unusual for someone to want to show you something that you didn't know you were ignorant about, and usually in a manner so scornful that you'll be humbled.
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