Top 100 Agnostic Quotes
#2. When I look at life I try to be as agnostic and unmetaphysical as possible. So I have to admit that, most probably, we do not have a fate. But I think that's something that draws us to novels - that the characters always have a fate. Even if it's a terrible fate, at least they have one.
Daniel Kehlmann
#3. The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
H.L. Mencken
#4. I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.
Mike Dirnt
#5. I am an agnostic on most matters of faith, but on the subject of maps I have always been a true believer. It is on the map, therefore it is, and I am.
Tony Horwitz
#6. Me? I was pretty much an Orthodox Agnostic. I figured God probably existed, but I didn't have the time or energy to investigate.
Richelle Mead
#7. I waver between a cop-out agnostic and principled atheism
Dan Savage
#8. I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.
Carl Sagan
#9. The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."
Ernest Renan
#10. I think of myself as a positive agnostic. I don't know, therefore I'm open. I don't know, therefore I'm interested.
Grace Slick
#11. I have been described by one of my colleagues as a 'militant agnostic' with my tagline, 'I don't know, and neither do you!' I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience.
Brian Schmidt
#12. 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
#13. And so Mort came at last to the river Ankh, greatest of rivers. Even before it entered the city, it was slow and heavy with the silt of the plains, and by the time it got to The Shades even an agnostic could have walked across it. It was hard to drown in the Ankh, but easy to suffocate.
Terry Pratchett
#14. I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow
#15. 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
#16. As on enquiring agnostic one seeks, not the smugness of atheism, not the blindness of idolatry - nor even the complacency of established religion - but the intelligent quest of the unknowing, in humility and with a clarity of mind
Andrew Ashdown
#17. In a society where women are truly equal to men, a kid bred by a theist mother and an atheist father is born an agnostic. In a patriarchal society, the kid is automatically an atheist.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#18. Rather than say he's an atheist, a friend of mine says, 'I'm a tooth fairy agnostic,' meaning he can't disprove God but thinks God is about as likely as the tooth fairy.
Richard Dawkins
#19. My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
Janet Suzman
#20. For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.
Henry Ian Cusick
#21. To say that we cannot know anything about God is to say something about God; it is to say that if there is a God, he is unknowable. But in that case, he is not entirely unknowable, for the agnostic certainly thinks that we can know one thing about him: That nothing else can be known about him.
J. Budziszewski
#22. I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
Bob Dylan
#23. Far too many young people coming of age today have no spiritual or emotional roots. They have been deprived of values by an agnostic and contemporary culture.
Billy Graham
#24. I began asking, 'How can we know Christianity is true?' Sadly, none of the adults in my life offered an answer. Eventually I decided Christianity must not have any answers, and I became an agnostic.
Nancy Pearcey
#25. 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 identified with a specific political party.
Italo Calvino
#26. I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.
Clarence Darrow
#27. I would not say I am looking for God. Or, I am not looking for God precisely. I am not seeking the God I learned about as a Catholic child, as an 18-year-old novice in a religious community, as an agnostic graduate student, as - but who cares about my disguises? Or God's.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#28. I'm fairly uncertain about most things. I mean, I'd be an agnostic, only I can never quite make up my mind.
C.J. Stone
#29. Everybody has faith of some kind in one thing or another. Even the atheist has faith that there is no God. And the agnostic has faith in his belief that he is unable to believe.
Ron Brackin
#30. Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.
Raheel Farooq
#31. I grew up in a Catholic family in the Midwest. And I knew people of different faiths and people that were atheists and people that were agnostic.
Jim Gaffigan
#32. Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.
Eric Chaisson
#33. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#34. Any one who thinks is an agnostic about something, otherwise he must believe that he is possessed of all knowledge. And the proper place for such a person is in the madhouse or the home for the feeble-minded.
Clarence Darrow
#35. 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
#36. I'm platform agnostic. I've been platform agnostic ever since I went online.
Michelle Phan
#38. 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 an atheist, and I was an agnostic.
Woody Allen
#39. A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.
H.L. Mencken
#40. I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.
Christopher Durang
#41. The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.
Steve Allen
#42. Most people past college age are not atheists. It's too hard to be in society, for one thing. Because you don't get any days off. And if you're an agnostic you don't know whether you get them off or not.
Mort Sahl
#43. As my colleague, the physical chemist Peter Atkins, puts it, we must be equally agnostic about the theory that there is a teapot in orbrit around the planet Pluto. We can't disprove it. But that doesn't mean the theory that there is a teapot is on level terms with the theory that there isn't.
Richard Dawkins
#44. I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.
Moby
#45. 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
#46. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.
Richard P. Feynman
#47. I'm tolerant of believers, but I'm agnostic. I'm curious to see how scientists will integrate the near-death experience into their research and if it will be explained.
Cecile De France
#48. Well, in the sense of the traditional notion of God, coming out of Christianity and Islam and the Abrahamic religions, I do not hold with that concept of a God or deity. In that concept, I'm agnostic. Okay, I don't know the answer, let's find the answer.
Edgar Mitchell
#49. I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.
Kedar Joshi
#50. In one of his last appearances, Mitterrand, the agnostic president, was asked what the real God might say to him if he went to heaven. God would say: "At last, you know." And I would hope that He would add, "Welcome."
Francois Mitterrand
#51. I was brought up Christian, then I was agnostic and then I realized I was atheist ... This movie [Agora] is about fundamentalism and hate.
Alejandro Amenabar
#52. Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.
Christy Turlington
#53. But what the hell do I know? I'm an agnostic episcopalian with a day pass to a Hindu heaven.
Neil Gaiman
#54. An agnostic position is one that leaves open the question whether there exists a god or gods, professing to find such a question unanswered or unanswerable. For the atheist, the question has been answered, and in the negative.
Jaroslav Pelikan
#55. 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
#56. I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Penelope Lively
#57. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
H.P. Lovecraft
#59. We are all agnostic, we just don't know it.
You
#60. I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
Charles Bukowski
#61. I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.
Monica Bellucci
#62. It may be the case that [post-Holocaust] the authentic Jewish
agnostic and the authentic Jewish believer are closer than at
any previous time.
Emil Fackenheim
#63. 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. The agnostic.
Chuck Palahniuk
#64. After all, he thought, the one thing an agnostic knows for sure is: you never know.
Mary Doria Russell
#66. 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 of the rich took to scepticism exactly as the poor took to drink; because it was a way out.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#67. Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih
#68. I grew up in a mixed religious household. And it was volatile. My dad's atheist, my mom's agnostic. Just constant fighting. There's no God! There might be!
Bonnie McFarlane
#69. 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 politics rather than faith.
Terry Eagleton
#70. I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God' ... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#71. No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster
#72. America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
Benjamin Hart
#73. I wanted to marry the first girl that I fell in love with, but there were religious differences.
I was an agnostic and she was a Polycarbonate
Josh Stern
#74. 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, until then there's no point thinking about it.
Brad Pitt
#75. I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.
Nadine Gordimer
#77. I think an Agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind. The whole subject [of God] is beyond the scope of man's intellect.
Charles Darwin
#78. I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas of doubt and uncertainty resided.
Jennifer Worth
#79. An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.
Stephen Batchelor
#81. In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
Jon Meacham
#82. I love the idea of God, but it's not stylistically in keeping with the way I function. I would describe myself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. I can see that people who believe in God are happier ... But I doubt.
Carrie Fisher
#84. I call myself an agnostic. I'm open to change. I'm the same sort of person, although much less aggressive, as Richard Dawkins.
Ruth Rendell
#85. 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 ... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic.
Felix Frankfurter
#86. I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.
Jim Gaffigan
#87. I'm not sure I really am a Humanist. I describe myself as a rigorous agnostic, which means that you cannot declare as a matter of material truth something that is in fact a matter of spiritual belief.
Margaret Atwood
#88. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgments; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted
G.K. Chesterton
#89. 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 of fate was not convincing at all. I find the presence of God everywhere.
Andrea Bocelli
#90. I read the Koran and it appealed to me. At the time I was agnostic and it really breathed spiritually back into me. For me it's really a cushion; it's cool, I'm cool with it.
Q-Tip
#91. I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know ... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
B.F. Skinner
#93. Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.
Jonathan Ames
#94. Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place when referring to the original Huxleyan meaning of the term. The use of "rationalist" for "agnostic" would also seem to be less ambiguous.
Gordon Stein
#96. Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives
Dennis Prager
#97. Far too many young people today have no spiritual roots. The've been deprived of values by an agnostic, contemporary culture.
Billy Graham
#98. The real heretic is not the atheist or agnostic (who are often decent people) but those who murmur "it doesn't matter what you believe, as long as it makes you feel good." This turns religion into a subjective matter, like taste in furnishings, and robs theology of its claim to ultimate truth.
Sydney J. Harris
#99. I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
Mark Romanek
#100. I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.
Thomas Huxley
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