I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. — Clarence Darrow
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
Atheism is not the denial of the existence of God, but having doubts as to whether God is conscious. — Slavoj Žižek
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
She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. — Jean-Paul Sartre
As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist. — Protagoras
Question with boldness even the existence of a god. — Thomas Jefferson
Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others. — Hugo Black
The opposite of theism is not atheism, it’s idolatry — Peter Kreeft
I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion. — Albert Einstein
To be free of belief and unbelief is my religion. — Omar Khayyam
There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything. — Lord Byron
It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do: good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His Word. — King James I
As for the accusation of intellectual pride, surely the boot is on the other foot. Atheists don't claim to know anything with certainty -- it's the believers who know it all. — Barbara Smoker
Short Agnosticism Quotes
Do not allow yourselves to be deceived: Great Minds are Skeptical. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god. — David Hume
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. — H. L. Mencken
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities. — Charles Darwin
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan
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Good Quotes
A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. — Bernard Meltzer
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. — Steven Weinberg
I've had good times and I've had bad times and I reminisce, maybe when I lay down, but throughout my day I keep myself engulfed in whatever moment I'm in because it could steer me into a depressed state. — Kevin Gates
No matter how successful you become you gotta keep grindin' and be a good person and then good things will come to you. — Meek Mill
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses. — Ann Landers
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends. My teacher was Ferruccio Cusinati — Maria Callas
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. — Marcus Aurelius
Religion Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out. — Al Capone
Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds. — John Henrik Clarke
Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion. — Abraham Lincoln
Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance — Al-Ghazali
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. — Dalai Lama
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. — Thomas Jefferson
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. — Karl Marx
Believing In God Quotes
Simply believing in the existence of God is not exactly what I would call a commitment. After all, even the devil believes that God exists. Believing has to change the way we live. — Mother Angelica
This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven. — Ray Comfort
Your life as a Christian should make non believers question their disbelief in God. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. — Jose Rizal
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything. — Blaise Pascal
I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but demons I do because everyone at one time or another has some kind of a demon, even if you call it by another name, that drives them. — Gene Wilder
Believe in God like you believe in the sunrise. Not because you can see it, but because you can see all it touches. — C. S. Lewis
You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer
Believe in God like the sun up in the sky, see science can tell us how but it can't tell us why. I seen a baby cry then seconds later she laughed, the beauty of life the pain never lasts. — J. Cole
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. — Malcolm Muggeridge
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
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
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend. — Blaise Pascal
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
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful. — Seneca
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
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
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
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
But lack of evidence, if indeed evidence is lacking, is no grounds for atheism. No one thinks there is good evidence for the proposition that there are an even number of stars; but also, no one thinks the right conclusion to draw is that there are an uneven number of stars. The right conclusion would instead be agnosticism. — Alvin Plantinga
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
Atheism and agnosticism signify the rejection of certain images and concepts of God or of truth, which are historically conditioned and therefore inadequate. Atheism is a challenge to religion to purifiy its images and concepts and come nearer to the truth of divine mystery. — Bede Griffiths
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and say, Sir, I made an honest mistake. — H. L. Mencken
Atheism, which people have tried to for hundreds of years as 'the ways of reason and science,' is proving to be mere irrationality and ignorance. — Harun Yahya
I believe in the gods; or rather I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent minded. — Jean Giraudoux
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion. — Swami Vivekananda
A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man. — Albert Einstein
We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief. — D. Elton Trueblood
This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty. — Stephen Batchelor
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill. — H. L. Mencken
It is not scientific doubt, not atheism, not pantheism, not agnosticism, that in our day and in this land is likely to quench the light of the gospel. It is a proud, sensuous, selfish, luxurious, church-going, hollow-hearted prosperity. — Francis Chan
Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable thought that he and all other sentient beings are doomed to complete annihilation after such long-continued slow progress. — Charles Darwin
My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything. — Robert Anton Wilson
Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time. — Isaac Asimov
I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose. — Orson Welles
Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy. — Jonathan Swift
Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too. — Anna Julia Cooper
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin
The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them. — Thomas A. Edison
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and beneficence on all sides of us. There seems to me too much misery in the world. I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one. — Albert Einstein
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
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and dogmatic denial very childish forms of conceit in a world of infinitely whirling complexity. None of us can see enough from one corner of space-time to know "all" about the rest of space-time. — Robert Anton Wilson
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future life and back to the present, it demands an ethics of empathy rather than a metaphysics of fear and hope. — Stephen Batchelor
Why do we need faith when we have the technology to move mountains? — Karl Jakob Weber
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