"I still don't like the word agnostic. It's……" — Alan Alda
"I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?"
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101 Quotes by Alan Alda
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
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As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.
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I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
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Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith…
— William Jennings Bryan
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I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist…
— Isaac Asimov
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The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests…
— Douglas Adams
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I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an…
— Alan Dershowitz
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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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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