"Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom." ~ Socrates

I have joined this most wonderful of all forums Riverdale Fanfiction Challenges ... so any of my Riverdale stories that have prompts at the beginning ... they are from this forum. I have decided to state this on my profile page so if I forget to put it in my stories ... the forum still gets the credit.

"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing." ~ Socrates

The fanfiction fourms that I have joined: Legend of Korra FanFiction Challenge Fourm, Betty Deserves Better.

"Wait Berry. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to take out my frustration on you." Quinn says blushing a gen

tle pink. It's not often she admits she has made a mistake, let alone apologise for it.

Rachel's mouth opens and closes a few times, as her brain tries to process what just happened. Quinn Fabray actually apologised to her. She scrunches her eyebrows and wonders if she'll be hearing the sounds of galloping horses announcing the arrival of the Four Horsemen. Deciding to keep that part quiet because the last thing she wants is for Quinn to use her as a verbal punching bag again, Rachel focuses instead on the situation at hand.

"It's ok. I'm used to it." Rachel says with a shrug of her shoulders. The words meant as nothing more than an observation and nothing more. One look at the blonde's face and Rachel knows she ended up with both feet shoved firmly down her throat again, though she's unsure why. She sighs, as she debates about saying something. After some deliberation, she decides against it. There is no need to make the situation even more awkward than it already is.

Quinn is shocked at the effect those words have on her. It saddens and disgusts her that Rachel expects nothing but bad outcomes out of their encounters. Has she really been that bad with the brunette? She nearly scoffs out loud at herself once that thought is finished because yes, she has been that bad. When she sees Rachel's guilty look makes Quinn feel worse.

-- Rebel Heart : jt4702

"Falling down is not a failure. Failure comes when you stay where you have fallen." ~ Socrates

"Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in." ~ Aristotle

"The right question is usually more important than the right answer." ~ Plato

"No one can teach, if by teaching we mean the transmission of knowledge, in any mechanical fashion, from one person to another. The most that can be done is that one person who is more knowledgeable than another can, by asking a series of questions, stimulate the other to think, and so cause him to learn for himself." ~ Socrates

"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." ~ Democritus

"The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." ~ Aristotle

"Do you have jumper cables in your car?" Quinn asks hopeful.

"Yes, I do. I'll drive my car over so you can do what's needed to jumpstart your car." Rachel says softly.

"What do you mean me? I know nothing about cars. Shouldn't you be the one doing it since they're your jumper cables?" Quinn asks with a raised eyebrow.

"I, uh, might carry them around as a precaution, but like you, I know nothing about cars." Rachel admits sheepishly, not being used to admitting she doesn't know how to do something.

"Wait a minute, you mean to tell me that the ever prepared Rachel Berry isn't an expert on auto emergencies?" Quinn teases, none of the usual malice present.

"Yeah, well, not that kind of emergency. As I future Broadway star I never thought I'd be needing a car in a city like New York. All I know about them is that they need gas if they're not electric and they need regular maintenance in order to work at peak efficiency, thus reducing the strain they put in the environment." Rachel says in a huff.

Quinn actually giggles at their exchange and at Rachel's reply. It's not every day that one gets to bear witness to Rachel admitting she's not 'proficient' (her own word) at something.

-- Rebel Heart : jt4702

"Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant" ~ Socrates

"Criticism is something we can avoid easily

by saying nothing, doing nothing,

and being nothing." ~ Aristotle

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.” - John Lennon

"My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me." ~ Democritus

"Be kind. Every person you meet

is fighting a difficult battle." ~ Plato

"If you want to be wrong then follow the masses." ~ Socrates

"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." ~ Aristotle

"I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death. What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch and you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities. You become a little baby, you go back into the womb, spend your last nine months floating... and you finish off as an orgasm." - George Carlin

"If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools." ~ Plato

"I know, that I know nothing." -Socrates

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and riffle their pockets for new vocabulary." - James Nicoll