Agnostic Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Agnostic Agnostic Greek Atheist Greek Greek Word Ignorant Latin Word Ignorant
An agnostic is a doubter. The word is generally applied to those who doubt the verity of accepted religious creeds of faiths. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the… — Jim Herrick Copy Share Image
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
An agnostic is someone who believes the nature of the Divine is unknowable... and in that sense, I'm willing to subscribe to being an… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The agnostic does not simply say, "l do not know." He goes another step, and he says, with great emphasis, that you do not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The modern Agnostic improves upon the ancient by adding "I don't care" to "I don't know. — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“She herself vacillated when it came to belief. She did not particularly believe in God. Or, rather, she didn't believe in a particular God.… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul." — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that. — Alfre Woodard Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Some people are so stiff and inhumane as the dogma's they believe in” — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“An atheist is someone who is disappointed in his search of god. He is a man who strongly needed god but couldn't find him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
If a humanist or an atheist or an agnostic says, "We'll bake you a pie," we can go right into the kitchen and bake… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice — Raheel Farooq Copy Share Image
All Gaza's temples are torn down and burned and the city is cleansed of every belief but the Christian faith. The most stubborn opponents,… — Ramsay MacMullen Copy Share Image
