Do we become wiser asking questions or answering them?

Answer 1

We become wise by doing both.

Answer 2

I don't see how it is possible for someone to become wiser by answering a question. We become wiser by taking input from the outside world and applying it to our lives, and while internal reflection is valuable it alone cannot make us wiser. Though this thought had never before this moment come across my mind, I am not wiser for thinking it because it was always a part of me whether I acknowledged it or not.

Answer 3

Neither. Wisdom comes from solving problems you face. You may ask people if they were ever faced with a similar problem and get the information from them as to how they solved the problem you are facing, but, you will only have some facts stored in your memory at that point. You must personally and physically then use that knowledge to solve your particular version of a common problem. Then after you are been successful at the completion of a problem you have solved, you have become experienced, and therefore wiser.

In summary, I am telling you, you cannot gain wisdom by only asking or only answering. You must have a combination of both and add experience into the equation before you gain wisdom!

If you only ask questions, and never listen to the answer, then you will never be able to gain anything at all from it, you have only wasted some of your lifetime. If you only answer questions, without listening to the question asked, you will be wasting some of your lifetime and anothers lifetime as well. And if you only question, or answer, and don't try to fix the problem with a physical involvement of your body and brain, you will be an addict to Yahoo Answers and enjoy the heck out of it!

Answer 4

I would have to say by asking questions. We learn more by asking why because it helps us to discover. Already knowing the answers kind of puts a stop to discovering more and becoming wiser.

Answer 5

By asking questions we become wiser. Because we learn new answers.

Answer 6

Asking

Answer 7

Sometimes we know the answer to the question but we are asking to answer someone elses question, and there are many other reasons for asking questions than just to know the answer.
Sometimes we answer questions just to getdem points, or we answer questions and edit them, realising that what we thought was the answer before, was not complete.
So i think we become wiser by asking questions and answering them.
people who ask less questions have learnt from others answering anyway - mostly ?
Experience is the answer.

Answer 8

We all become wiser because if you dont ask questions what would you know life worthless without knowing things

Answer 9

I believe both.By asking we gain knowledge which we then share by answering. Therefore we become wiser by learning.

Answer 10

Both. By asking you learn things... but by answering you may learn things about yourself... plus reading other people's answers is defiantly a way to open your perspective which allows you to become wiser.

Answer 11

Tough question.

Whether or not we learn by asking depends on who is doing the answering. If we do not get good answers we are not learning by asking. But at least by asking questions we are attempting to learn.

The only way I see that we learn by answering questions is by looking deeper into ourselves to find that answer. By doing that we become wiser.