The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes. — Paul Feyerabend
Short Agnostic Quotes
When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. — Sigmund Freud
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine. — Arthur Schopenhauer
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. — Blaise Pascal
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca
Lighthouses are more helpful than churches. — Benjamin Franklin
If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish Him. — Mikhail Bakunin
Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people. — David Viaene
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. — Protagoras
I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. — Simon Hoggart
God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists. — Albert Einstein
Agnostic Image Quotes
Agnostic Atheist Quotes
A person isn't considered insane if there are a number of people who believe the same way. Insanity isn't supposed to be a communicable disease. If one other person starts to believe him, or maybe two or three, then it's a religion. — Robert M. Pirsig
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. — George Bernard Shaw
The most heinous and the most cruel crimes of which history has record have been committed under the cover of religion or equally noble motives. — Mahatma Gandhi
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you. — Steve Buscemi
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. — Benjamin Disraeli
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. — Ludwig Feuerbach
We have a choice. We have two options as human beings. We have a choice between conversation and war. That's it. Conversation and violence. And faith is a conversation stopper. — Sam Harris
I tell them I have worked 40 years to make the W.S. platform broad enough for Atheists and Agnostics to stand upon, and now if need be I will fight the next 40 to keep it Catholic enough to permit the straightest Orthodox religionist to speak or pray and count her beads upon. (on women's suffrage) — Susan B. Anthony
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. — George William Foote
There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. — Ruth Hurmence Green
Agnostic Theist Quotes
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. — Epicurus
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk. — Thomas A. Edison
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. — Mark Twain
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think. — Richard Dawkins
An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid. — Carl Sagan
I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic. — Kedar Joshi
Being Agnostic Quotes
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant. — Jorge Luis Borges
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow
Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. — Richard Dawkins
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. — Steve Crocker
I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in. — Dan Fouts
Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. — Albert Einstein
I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier. ... But I doubt. — Carrie Fisher
There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies? — Richard Dawkins
Agnosticism Quotes
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature. — Mikhail Gorbachev
If mankind were born tomorrow it would divide into groups; each would scramble to invent their one and only god, and set about butchering each-other. — Voltaire
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine false; but the old saying of Vox populi, vox Dei [the voice of the people is the voice of God], as every philosopher knows, cannot be trusted in science. — Charles Darwin
Agnosticism is epistemologically self-contradictory on its own assumptions because its claim to make no assertion about ultimate reality rests upon a most comprehensive assertion about ultimate reality. — Cornelius Van Til
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. — Francis Collins
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind. — H. L. Mencken
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith has given way to agnosticism. Meanwhile, though our faith in evolution stands unshaken we have no acceptable account of the origin of species. — William Bateson
In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome." — Francois Mitterrand
The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If you don't uphold your legal responsibility to enforce the First Amendment, to provide speakers with platforms and audiences with safe, the ability to listen to speakers of all different kinds, agnostic ideology, if you don't do that as a university, you are not performing your essential function. — Milo Yiannopoulos
"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing."
"Oh," says man, "but the Babel Fish is a dead give-away, isn't it? It proves You exist, and so therefore You don't. Q.E.D."
"Oh, I hadn't thought of that," says God, who promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. — Douglas Adams
Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic. — Hu Shih
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow
Isn't killing people in the name of God a pretty good definition of insanity? — Arthur C. Clarke
Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. — Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Evolution is the root of atheism, of communism, nazism, behaviorism, racism, economic imperialism, militarism, libertinism, anarchism, and all manner of anti-Christian systems of belief and practice. — Henry M. Morris
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. — Brad Pitt
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? — Epicurus
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides. — Carl Sagan
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. — Daniel J. Boorstin
There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes. — James K. Morrow
I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems. — Ben Nicholson
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