Agnostic Quotes

198 Agnostic quotes by 144 unique authors

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Whether conservative or liberal, fundamentalist or agnostic, the more students learn of biology, the more they accept evolution. — Kenneth R. Miller
W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained. — W.C. Fields
My father was an agnostic. — Jerry Falwell
An agnostic is a cowardly atheist. — Studs Terkel
I do not have any political commitments anymore. I'm politically a total agnostic; I'm one of the few writers in Italy who refuses to be… — Italo Calvino
My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it. — Janet Suzman
I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for. — Penelope Lively
The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of… — Terry Eagleton
I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic. — Christopher Durang
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we… — Henry Edward Armstrong
In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell… — Peter Guber
Don't be an agnostic. Be something. — Robert Frost
[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of… — George R. R. Martin
Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist. — George Bernard Shaw
I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very… — Charles Krauthammer
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution...… — Felix Frankfurter
As the books got more and more Zionist and less and less socialist, my entire generation, at least a large percentage of it, simply left… — Roseanne Barr
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. — Sigmund Freud
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… — Clarence Darrow
The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. — Charles Darwin
The law is agnostic about truth. — Alan Dershowitz
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… — Richard Dawkins
The law is agnostic about truth. It's very skeptical of ultimate truth. That's why freedom of speech permits lies to be told. — Alan Dershowitz

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