Agnostic Quotes

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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 knowledge something that is not… — Margaret Atwood
As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet
I have to recognize that I am agnostic. — Antonio Banderas
Both need each other: The agnostic cannot be content to not know, but must be in search of the great truth of faith; the Catholic… — Pope Benedict XVI
I was an agnostic until I realized that I had to choose between God and fate. The idea that humanity and nature are the result… — Andrea Bocelli
The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them… — William Jennings Bryan
I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but… — Isaac Asimov
The average businessman began to be agnostic, not so much because he did not know where he was, as because he wanted to forget. Many… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
People will then often say, 'But surely it's better to remain an Agnostic just in case?' This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness… — Douglas Adams
I have always considered "Pascal's Wager" a questionable bet to place. Any God worth "believing in" would surely prefer an honest agnostic to a calculating… — Alan Dershowitz
The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all. — H. L. Mencken
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan
I suspect the reason is that most people [...] have a residue of feeling that Darwinian evolution isn't quite big enough to explain everything about… — Richard Dawkins
Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic. — Eric Chaisson
The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Remember, I am neither a bear nor a bull, I am an agnostic opportunist. I want to make money short- and long-term. I want to… — Jim Cramer
My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the… — Albert Einstein
I am agnostic only to the extent that I am agnostic about fairies at the bottom of the garden — Richard Dawkins
Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls? — Stephen Colbert
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… — Alan Alda

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