Best 165 quotes in «agnostic quotes» category

As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

Fascism is a religious concept.

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.

'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to say that any sensible person should want to listen to.

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.

I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it.

God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

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.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.

I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be identified with a specific political party.

If I am an agnostic, Calyxa, it's because I'm also a realist.

If I had to label myself now, I'd call myself a Taoist-Christian-agnostic quantum mechanic.

If I thought the Jews killed God, I'd worship the Jews.

If Jesus was a Jew, why did he have a Spanish name?

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

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

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

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

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

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 am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden

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 necessary for men to be deceived in religion.

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

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

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

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

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

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.