Agnostic Quotes
198 Agnostic quotes by 144 unique authors
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I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was…
— Woody Allen
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Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is…
— Epicurus
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Lighthouses are more helpful than churches.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.
— Richard Dawkins
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My view is that if there is no evidence for it, then forget about it. An agnostic is somebody who doesn’t believe in something until…
— Carl Sagan
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The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known.
— John Stuart Mill
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And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those…
— Bertrand Russell
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No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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As a philosopher, if I were speaking to a purely philosophic audience I should say that I ought to describe myself as an Agnostic, because…
— Bertrand Russell
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Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all…
— David Foster Wallace
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You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
— Carl Sagan
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that…
— A. J. Jacobs
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If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of…
— Isaac Asimov
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But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself,…
— Oscar Wilde
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I can well imagine an athiest's last words: "White, white! L-L-Love! My God!" - and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if he…
— Yann Martel
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I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
— Dan Savage
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So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak…
— Richard Dawkins
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I am not agnostic. I am atheist. I don’t think there is no God; I know there’s no God. I know there’s no God the…
— Adam Carolla
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Most guys will fight to know you. Some guys will deny you're a real person, and some will just ignore you." The zealot. The atheist.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman.
— H. L. Mencken
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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,…
— Brad Pitt
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All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival…
— H P Lovecraft
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I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
— Jim Butcher
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There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.
— James K. Morrow
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