Atheist Agnostic Quotes

#1. If you find a person (atheist, agnostic, religious or otherwise) that lives with their heart open and gives and receives unconditionally, you'll find a person who is living a spiritual life. You'll also find a person who has learned everything there is to learn about life on earth.

Stuart Perrin

#2. In any modern society encouraging your child to cut himself is an unthinkable act, but only with religious belief becomes part of the culture, and demands respect.

Sean S. Kamali

#3. Virtually every agnostic lives like an atheist, living completely irreligious lives

Dennis Prager

#4. An atheist has to know more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no God.

Carl Sagan

#5. 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

#6. For wicked people to do evil requires money, and good people superstition. Combining these elements and we get organized religion, but to achieve the worst of all evil conflate politics to the compound and the tragedies are endless.

Sean S. Kamali

#7. I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Neil Peart

#8. When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me.

George Carlin

#9. There's no bigger atheist than me. Well, I take that back. I'm a cancer screening away from going agnostic and a biopsy away from full-fledged Christian.

Adam Carolla

#10. Being a pastor for 20 years I realized that the labels, agnostic, atheist, believer, everybody's human and everybody wants to know what kind of universe we're living in, and everybody's living according to a story.

Rob Bell

#11. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#12. I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

John E. Jones III

#13. I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.

Lisa Tuttle

#14. You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.'

Doug Stanhope

#15. God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.

Albert Einstein

#16. In classrooms and living rooms across the globe, an agnostic or an atheist may be heard to strenuously argue, 'But the Bible is just a book.' Similar arguments may be raised against other holy books. But they all are too ironic, by half. A book is the Bible.

Gerald Weaver

#17. Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

Stephen Colbert

#18. I am not a believer, not an atheist, not an agnostic. I am more content with questions than answers.

Roger Ebert

#19. I want to thank you, especially those people who are agnostic or atheist. I don't mean any offense by the things I said of the spirit world. Thank you for allowing me to speak about the spiritual, because I can't talk about my life or writing without mentioning that.

Sandra Cisneros

#20. I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agnostic suicide bombers attack crowded atheist pubs.

Simon Hoggart

#21. He called himself an "agnostic" instead of an "atheist" only because he detested the street-bawling, tract-peddling evangelicism of the professional atheists.

Sinclair Lewis

#22. 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

#23. You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.

Studs Terkel

#24. I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Sara Paretsky

#25. I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

George R R Martin

#26. "Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "being doubtful about the existence of God."

Jim Herrick

#27. If a person is intelligent, then of course he is either an agnostic or an atheist. Just as he is a physical coward. They are automatic definitions of high intelligence.

John Fowles

#28. When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.

Moby

#29. I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

Dan Fouts

#30. I'm agnostic," I told him. "I'd be an atheist, except I believe in hedging my bets.

Lisa Kleypas

#31. I am also atheist or agnostic (I don't even know the difference). I've never been to church and prefer to think for myself.

Steve Wozniak

#32. I am 95% a theist and 5% an atheist; thus ultimately I am an agnostic.

Kedar Joshi

#33. I've always thought an agnostic is an atheist without the courage of his convictions.

Carl Sagan

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. For all the creationists out there, Darwin's just an atheist. But he was actually agnostic.

Henry Ian Cusick

#37. A few years ago, a priest working in a slum section of a European city was asked why he was doing it, and replied, 'So that the rumor of God may not completely disappear.

Peter L. Berger

#38. 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

#39. Intellect, at its best, can make you agnostic. Being theist or atheist is still a matter of choice.

Raheel Farooq

#40. 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

#41. Gods dont kill people. People with Gods kill people.

David Viaene

#42. 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

#43. A belief is not true because it is useful

Henri Frederic Amiel

#44. I never graduated to being an atheist. I only graduated to being an agnostic.

Christopher Durang

#45. 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

#46. Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not.

George Bernard Shaw

#47. If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.

Mark Twain

#48. God gives out good gifts of wisdom, talent, beauty, and skill 'graciously'
that is, in a completely unmerited way. He casts them across all humanity, regardless of religious conviction, race, gender, or any other attribute to enrich, brighten, and preserve the world.

Timothy Keller

#49. 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

#50. 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

#51. 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

#52. An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

Studs Terkel

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. I'm an atheist. I wouldn't even call myself an agnostic. I am an atheist.

Nadine Gordimer

#57. Man created God in his own image.

Ludwig Feuerbach

#58. 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

#59. 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

#60. I spent most of my adult life essentially agnostic or an atheist.

Jim Gaffigan