Are people who answer very often and ask rarely more likely to be arrogant, self-centered, and dumber than those who ask often and answer rarely?
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Halliburton Shill
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In life - yes, an intelligent and balanced person knows to ask questions and strives to gather information. Here at AB? No. I only ask questions that I actually want to know the answers to. I find the pedantic practice of asking trivial and mundane questions to be a quest for points, not knowledge.
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I think that's generally true, but not always. I once heard an interesting quote: "The truly wise man, knows how little he truly knows" Basically, intellligence is more about finding, rather than flaunting knowledge. Of course, that's not to say that you shouldn't try to answer any question you can...some things you can only learn through experience and hard work.
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It's the other way around.
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I think it's the other way around.
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I think that all the great philosophers will not have the same ideas about this. For my part, I would consider myself as a middle range philosopher, and I think that there is not always a correlation between asking to answering frequency rate and being dumb. It is polite to answer if you are asked, but the answer could also be "I don't know". It is wise to ask question, but also wise to know when you should stop asking questions. The proportion of dumb people is quite the same in any group, even that of the great philosophers...
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