Confident vs Arrogant

There is nothing worse than interacting with an intelligent person who is also arrogant. You want to learn as much as you can from this person until their arrogance over comes their intelligence and you can't see past it. They are interesting, smart, and always have something to add to the conversation. You really want to hear what it is they have to say, but its almost as if they've convinced themselves that they know everything. Can you possibly know everything? Is everything in life black and white? My thinking goes against this logic, and a person who refuses to see the other side of things or another persons point of view is just plain arrogant.

This person got me thinking about my relationships with other people, and I definitely don't have a lot of friends with the same point of view as I do. In fact I was married to a man who didn't share the same thought process as I do for many years. He is an engineer by trade, one of the smartest men I know, but I never thought of him as an arrogant person. He never talked down to me, and never acted as though he was smarter than me. He was always open to my point of view even if he didn't agree with it. I'm finding it harder today to meet people who can have a conversation without it turning into personal attacks, or taking offense to it. You either agree with them or you are wrong. I don't need that kind of negativity in my life.