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Maryanne Elizabeth Walker ([info]maryanne_walker) wrote in [info]compass_network,
@ 2013-06-23 02:13:00

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Entry tags:!open, jake sully, maryanne walker (oe), ~isabel lane, ~tony stark

Three key quotes that everyone should know and take to heart. Because there are far to many people who think themselves smart, or 'wise', on this island, yet close themselves off to learning anything new about anyone or anything.


"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-William Shakespeare

“To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.”
-Lao-Tzu

"The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing."
-Socrates

They all three say close to the same thing. And all three men knew what they said to be true about themselves.

My question is, are you going to die the fool? Or will you become wise before you die?


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[info]elodin
2013-06-23 07:29 am UTC (link)
Didn't I just say the same thing?

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 07:43 am UTC (link)
Actually you're one of the people I'm asking, when I asked the question. Your jackassery proves which of the two you are right now.

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[info]elodin
2013-06-23 07:47 am UTC (link)
Hmm, that's not very wise. What you know of me fits into a thimble, and still has space to move around.

But it is a common thing to make assumptions about people, which I find highly amusing, as it is the very thing you have relentlessly spoken against with our stubborn immortal population.

Therefore, pot meet kettle. You may call yourself black.

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(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 07:54 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 08:01 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:18 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 08:23 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:36 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 08:44 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 09:05 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 09:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 09:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 09:55 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 07:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 07:57 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 11:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]elodin, 2013-06-23 11:42 pm UTC

[info]thehalfelven
2013-06-23 07:42 am UTC (link)
And do you think the same about yourself? Oft I find when looking through a glass, there is a reflection showing me myself.

Do you consider yourself wiser than these purported others?

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 07:47 am UTC (link)
I don't consider myself wise, and I am constantly seeking out something new about someone. What has me beating my head against the wall is when I find out that there is nothing good to be learned, or that anything good that should be will never be learned by me. Or anyone else for that matter.

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[info]thehalfelven
2013-06-23 07:51 am UTC (link)
But is there a value on things learned? What is good or bad and who are we to decide the worth of knowledge? Is not all knowledge good because it inherently teaches?

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(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 08:08 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:24 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 08:27 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:56 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 09:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 09:53 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 01:45 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:17 pm UTC

[info]not_theotherguy
2013-06-23 07:56 am UTC (link)
"I like corn chips."
- Albert Einstein.

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 08:06 am UTC (link)
That one actually happens to be my absolute favorite.

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[info]not_theotherguy
2013-06-23 08:08 am UTC (link)
How about...

"Homeland is better than Game of Thrones."
- Abraham Lincoln.

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(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:38 am UTC

[info]aedwardstark
2013-06-23 08:17 am UTC (link)
It's better to remain silent and thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt.


That's been attributed to Mark Twain but I'm not completely sure he said it.

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[info]thehalfelven
2013-06-23 08:30 am UTC (link)
Then how do people learn if they do not speak? Is it better to remain a fool in ignorance, or speak and be taught?

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[info]aedwardstark
2013-06-23 08:32 am UTC (link)
If you remain silent you can learn by listening to those around you.

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(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 08:34 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]aedwardstark, 2013-06-23 08:35 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]thehalfelven, 2013-06-23 08:46 am UTC

[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 09:10 am UTC (link)
I like that one too, whoever said it first. But I think what he said was his, but he was probably putting something Socrates said in his own words. Or maybe Lao-Tzu.

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[info]aedwardstark
2013-06-23 10:48 pm UTC (link)
Probably

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[info]harry_dresden_
2013-06-23 12:22 pm UTC (link)
I'm smart enough to know that I'm not wise

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[info]anotherhellhole
2013-06-23 12:37 pm UTC (link)
You and me both, man. And I got Neytiri to point it out to me when I forget.

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[info]harry_dresden_
2013-06-23 12:56 pm UTC (link)
The day you decide you know everything is a good day to die

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[info]neytiri
2013-06-23 01:52 pm UTC (link)
Skxawng.

But still, wiser than the Sky People.

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 07:25 pm UTC (link)
You and me both, Brain.

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(no subject) - [info]harry_dresden_, 2013-06-23 07:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]maryanne_walker, 2013-06-23 08:17 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]harry_dresden_, 2013-06-23 08:20 pm UTC

[info]hedonism
2013-06-23 01:17 pm UTC (link)
... You know you're misinterpreting the message if you're using these quotes to point out someone else's perceived flaws.


But here is one for you: Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 07:24 pm UTC (link)
It's simply a plea for people who consider themselves wise to open up their minds, and stop shutting doors. Or realize the attempt to open one door doesn't mean they have to slam another shut after setting fire to the bridge behind it less than a month after the bridge had been built.

I don't consider myself wise or important, I'm just trailer trash from south Alabama. But I'm just... Running into a brick wall while trying to do right by other people. It's hard not to just write the 'brick walls' off as a lost cause, and knowing they'll be gone tomorrow. Tomorrow being any day that isn't today, rather than... You're smart I don't know why I'm explaining that part.

I might contract a wall with a bunch of good quotes on it. You've been around a long time, haven't you Mister Gray? Would you mind helping me collect a few?

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(no subject) - [info]hedonism, 2013-06-23 08:49 pm UTC
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Dorian | Tony - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-23 11:35 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]tonystark, 2013-06-23 11:57 pm UTC
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[info]isabellane
2013-06-23 02:48 pm UTC (link)
My favorites. "Everyone is stupid, it's just the level of stupidity that's in question." And

"Even a blind hog snorts up a truffle every now and then." Billy Ray Cyrus. Though I know he wasn't the first to say that one.

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 09:43 pm UTC (link)
I do like both of those. Though I don't think I'd give BRC the credit for the second one either.

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[info]tonysnark
2013-06-23 10:48 pm UTC (link)
Socrates was a huge dick.

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[info]maryanne_walker
2013-06-23 11:20 pm UTC (link)
Wasn't he a shut in too? Or was that Plato?

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