To be a true philosopher, must you do more listening than talking?

When we talk, we are sharing... when we listen, we are learning. We must do both in order to do either properly. Listening/learning is not enough, because what good is knowledge if you don't share it? Talking /sharing is not enough because we must keep learning in order to grow... everything in balance. :-)

~ namaste ~

Not necessarily.

You should listen to others insofar as you bother to criticize their answers logically (that is without any regard to personal propensities, nor to the person who argued) and as you use it to discriminate pointless answers. If most of what you hear is unsound, you have but very little to gain at listening... you'd be better to propose your actual answer, expose your reflection at the point it is and see where people have trouble following you, what are the incoherences in your propositions, etc.

Do more "thinking" than talking. Listening is good to learn the perspective.

But thinking/questioning is the only way we can derive at any philosophy.

Never hurts to hear;

they might provide a clue,

what some instead or fear,

what people say and do.

Listen never hurts

even when the story

exserts what we wert

is false, or glory.

Not really. You can talk as much as you want being wise. They are unrelated to each other in my opinion

most likely

I would say ... :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2RYhNhBdw