Quotes About Questioning

My final prayer: O my body, make of me always a man who questions!" - Frantz Fanon, "Black Skin, White Masks

Socrates "was asked why seawater had become salty. He replied: If you can indicate to me the use that will come to you from knowing the answer to this question, I shall give you the reason." And Diogenes, "seeing a youth with a lamp, said to him: Do you know where this - fire comes from? The youth replied: If you can tell me where it goes to, I shall tell you where it comes from, thus effectively silencing Diogenes, something nobody else had been able to do.

Proof of Your existence? There is nothing but.

As became a young sinner, Sam [Mark Twain] had a special interest in Satan. He asked his Sunday school teacher questions about Eve in the garden, wondering "if he had ever heard of another woman who, being approached by a serpent, would not excuse herself and break for the nearest timber." Twain recalled, "He did not answer my question, but rebuked me for inquiring into matters above my age and comprehension.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

Am I falling in love? She thought, is it safe to do so with this man? She thought, I don't need to answer.

If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.

Far from it being true that man and his activity makes the world comprehensible, he is himself the most incomprehensible of all, and drives me relentlessly to the view of the accursedness of all being, a view manifested in so many painful signs in ancient and modern times. It is precisely man who drives me to the final despairing question: Why is there something? Why not nothing?

Faith keeps you going, but doubt keeps you from going off the deep end.

The very sense of wondering is God wondering.

It's only when people believe that their beliefs are above questioning, that their beliefs alone are beyond all doubt, that they can be as truly horrible as we all know they can be.

It's true. I doubt. I doubt because I seek the truth. Doubt has served me well.

Zig looked Cole up and down. "You've got a glow to you, lad. You in love or something?" Cole laughed. "My body isn't dead yet.

But with you, I don't know what to trust.

What are you doing?" Seth asked. He had only one chocolate rosebud left. She would need to hide her chocolates someplace more secure than the nightstand drawer. She held up a final page. The light revealed nothing. "Practicing for my audition at the insane asylum." "I bet you'll win first prize," he teased. "Unless they see your face," she retorted.

Oh, hell," Kelsier said. "There's actually a God?" "Yes." Kelsier decked him. It was a good, clean punch, thrown from the shoulder while he brought his other arm up to block a counter strike.

Ham shook his head, sitting down, pouring himself something to drink. "I don't get it, El. Why'd she attack him?" "She's loony," Spook said.

What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.

Surround yourself with people too afraid to speak, and you left yourself to only your own ideas. That could be disastrous. It was important to have men who would question you and see flaws in your plans, so long as you could control them. It was all about control.

I was not meant to be an atheist.

Can something be "almost" an accident?' Pattern asked, genuinely curious.