John von Neumann who I am sure you would agree was far smarter than you coped with dealing with the dum-dums around him. He was in general loved by everyone who knew him (from all backgrounds) and regarded as the life of the party. He appeared to work on being loved as a problem to get him the resources he needed to do what he wanted to do (he managed to convince the IAS to let him build a computer on campus after all).