Best 165 quotes in «agnostic quotes» category

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

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.

I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.

I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

It is difficult to believe in a religion that places such a high premium on chastity and virginity.

It is necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at any previous time.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

I've been an agnostic for as long as I can remember ... so I don't know where we go. But if it turns out that the lights are just turned off and nothing happens, well, that's okay.

Let me use their own terminology against them. They aborted a child in the 200th trimester.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

Man created God in his own image.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

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.

No one can be an unbeliever nowadays. The Christian apologists have left one nothing to disbelieve.

One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.

On religion in particular the time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all who, being qualified in point of knowledge, have on mature consideration satisfied themselves that the current opinions are not only false but hurtful, to make their dissent known.

The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told.

The imaginary flowers of religion adorn man's chains. Man must throw off the flowers, and also the chains.

Some days I feel like I'm an atheist. Most days, I feel like an agnostic. On a very rare day, I feel like I'm a believer in something.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.

The law is agnostic about truth.

The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know.

The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

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.

There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

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.

The so-called geologic ages are essentially synonymous with the evolutionary theory of origins. The latter is the anti-God conspiracy of Satan himself.

The worst criminals are not half so immoral as the creators and perpetrators of the unquestionable hell of Christian theology

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.

When I approached God at that time, I hardly had a living faith in Him. The agnostic was in me, the atheist was in me, the sceptic was in me and I was not absolutely sure that there was a God at all. I did not feel His presence. Yet something drew me to the truth of the Vedas, the truth of the Gita, the truth of the Hindu religion.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

Without the intervention of the civil authority what would our percepts become?- Platonic laws.

Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principle. That principle is of great antiquity; it is as old as Socrates; as old as the writer who said, 'Try all things, hold fast by that which is good'; it is the foundation of the Reformation, which simply illustrated the axiom that every man should be able to give a reason for the faith that is in him, it is the great principle of Descartes; it is the fundamental axiom of modern science. Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic position, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him. The results of the working out of the agnostic principle will vary according to individual knowledge and capacity, and according to the general condition of science. That which is unproved today may be proved, by the help of new discoveries, tomorrow. The only negative fixed points will be those negations which flow from the demonstrable limitation of our faculties. And the only obligation accepted is to have the mind always open to conviction. That it is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can provide evidence which logically justifies that certainty. This is what agnosticism asserts and in my opinion, is all that is essential to agnosticism.