I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
As in an icicle the agnostic abides alone. The vital principle is taken out of all endeavor for improving himself or bettering… — Anna Julia Cooper Copy Share Image
The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism. In such a case, the value of apologetics is… — Edward John Carnell Copy Share Image
A celebrated author and divine has written to me that he has gradually learned to see that it is just as noble… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...properly a theory about knowledge, not about religion. A theist and a Christian may be an agnostic; an atheist may not be… — Robert Flint Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“The real difference is this: the Christian says that he has knowledge; the Agnostic admits that he has none; and yet the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
“The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Atheists are spiritual slackers, right? We are the stoners of the cosmos. We think we’re all over-intelligent, free-thinking, free-spirited, uber-cool, hippy-dippy, science-minded,… — T.K. Decker Copy Share Image
“As a society, we assume that humans naturally run from emotions like suffering, helplessness, and hopelessness, but the truth is these emotions… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is a perfectly respectable and tenable philosophical position; it is not dogmatic and makes no pronouncements about the ultimate truths of… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
“The claim to know that no god exists is just irrational. The non-existence of any god has no evidence, let alone proof.… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is no excuse for indecision. If anything, it is a catalyst for action; for in shifting concern away from a future… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“He respected the power of faith, the benevolence of churches, the strength religion gave so many people . . . and yet,… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The Constitution of the United States, for instance, is a marvelous document for self-government by the Christian people. But the minute you… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has… — Simone Collins Copy Share Image
When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer… — William Bateson Copy Share Image
“I'm agnostic. By definition, I'm unsure of what to believe in, but I'm also borderline-capable of believing in anything and everything, or… — Lauren Lola Copy Share Image
“The atheist might have no proof for the supernatural, but they also have no proof against it. If we start at a… — Lewis N. Roe Copy Share Image
An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Death makes me realize how deeply I have internalized the agnosticism I preach in all my books. I consider dogmatic belief and… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Not only do I not know what I believe, but also I cannot know for sure that I believe. How can I… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
“Agnosticism is of the essence of science, whether ancient or modern. It simply means that a man shall not say he knows… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“A totally nondenominational prayer: Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
