Best 165 quotes in «agnostic quotes» category

I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

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

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

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'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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism

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

Man created God in his own image.

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

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

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

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.

My position concerning God is that of an agnostic.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

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

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.