Are human beings not as smart and evolved as they think they are? Is it possible there is more evolution to go?

I see humans. And I see a lot of wrongings. A lot of ignorance. A lot of evil, selfishness, greed, and ignorance. Humans can be so stupid and so closed minded that they get into trouble. Some of us are smarter than others. Some of us are more empathic than others while some really have no empathy at all! Some have no understanding to them whatsoever. I see true morons from time to time. Usually people are peasants and are apathetic to others and the world. They just want to live their life. So they work 9 to 5. Few of us are the real changers. Only a few hundred politicians in Congress. Only few that are responsible for the many. Many do not care about Politics. It is FEW that are artists. It is FEW that are engineers. It is FEW that are lawyers. But never in the many are we, as humanity, capable of doing true good. We have many problems of our own we cannot deal. We are still ignorant of so many things. I really think we are not as great as we think we are. Comparing ourselves to monkeys isn't really fair. Yet we don't dare compare ourselves to others. To really see how things are. That we have many many faults. So the question is, do we, as humans, by nature, have the potential to evolve ourselves even more? To grow our awareness more? To become smart. more empathic, and more understand beings with a much higher efficiency to do ourselves and the world a great good?