Agnostic famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have always considered myself as an Agnostic...
-- Alexander Graham Bell -
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
-- Alfre Woodard -
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
-- Ben Nicholson -
My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until there is evidence for it, so I’m agnostic.
-- Carl Sagan -
An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.
-- Charles Darwin -
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
-- Christopher Durang -
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.
-- Coventry Patmore -
I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
-- Dan Savage -
No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
-- Daniel J. Boorstin -
Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
-- Dennis Prager -
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
-- E. M. Forster -
Im actually, for the most part, a complete agnostic politically.
-- Edward Witten -
It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time.
-- Emil Fackenheim -
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.
-- Eric Chaisson -
I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
-- Grace Slick -
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
-- J. Budziszewski -
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
-- Janet Suzman -
An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.
-- Jaroslav Pelikan -
I think I'm a love agnostic - not sure, one way or another, if it really exists.
-- Joan M. Drury -
As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
-- Johann Most -
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
-- John Stuart Mill -
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.
-- Kenneth E. Boulding -
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.
-- Kenneth R. Miller -
It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.
-- Marcus Terentius Varro -
As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
-- Michelle Bachelet -
I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.
-- Michelle Bachelet -
I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.
-- Neil Peart -
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
-- Penelope Lively -
Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.
-- Philipp Melanchthon -
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden
-- Richard Dawkins -
If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.
-- Robert Charles Wilson -
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
-- Sara Paretsky -
I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate...
-- Stanislaw Ulam -
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
-- Stephen Colbert -
So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.
-- Sun Myung Moon -
I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.
-- Thomas S. Monson -
The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.
-- William Lane Craig -
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass.
-- Conor Cruise O'Brien -
Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.
-- Luka Jones -
For years [H.P] Lovecraft was defined as an atheist. Well, he wasn't saying anything about what he really was at all. He wasn't even an agnostic. That's exactly what the situation is, in other words, when you enter an eternal realm. You've got to know there is no religion.
-- Paul Laffoley -
On the science of global climate change, I'm an agnostic. I've seen Al Gore's movie, and I've read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I've also listened to the 'skeptics.' I don't know who's right.
-- Robert Bryce -
Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.
-- Andre Alexis -
I guess I started to realize that being an agnostic was such a wimpy position.
-- George Meyer -
I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subjects of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
-- Tony Horwitz -
There's a big part of me that's atheist. There's a big part of me that's agnostic. And there's a big part of me that tends towards the mystic. The thing that I find is most important in all of that is to retain my sense of wonder and the idea that I don't actually know what's going to happen.
-- Vanessa Veselka -
I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.
-- John E. Jones III -
I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.
-- Laura Z. Hobson