Agnostic Quotes

• 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
  • Atheist
  • Appearance
  • Agnostic

• No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Man
  • Humour
  • Agnostic

• My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.

  

  Janet Suzman
  • Mother
  • Agnostic
  • Synagogue

• 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
  • Time
  • Cool
  • Spiritually

• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should insist on the need to engage in a meaningful debate on the entire issue of the truth or falsity (or probability or improbability) of religious tenets, without being subject to accusations of impiety, immorality, impoliteness, or any of the other smokescreens used by the pious to deflect attention from the central issues at hand.

  

  S. T. Joshi
  • Atheist
  • Agnostic
  • Secularist

• We need to be agnostics first and then there is some chance at arriving at a sensible system of belief.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Chance
  • Belief
  • Agnostic

• I grew up in an agnostic broad-minded family.

  

  Laura Z. Hobson
  • Up
  • Family
  • Agnostic

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

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Talking
  • Atheist
  • Atheism

• 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
  • Real
  • Heaven
  • President

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

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Atheist
  • Folks
  • Agnostic

• 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
  • God
  • Thinking
  • If There Is A God

• 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
  • People
  • Different
  • Catholic

• 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.

  

  Michael Ryan Pritchard Green Day
  • Die
  • Party
  • Hell

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

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Atheist
  • Adults
  • Agnostic

• I have always considered myself as an Agnostic.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Considered
  • Agnostic

• The prayer of the agnostic: "O God, if there is a God, save my soul if I have a soul."

  

  Ernest Renan
  • Soul
  • Prayer
  • Agnostic

• Even if you're an agnostic or an atheist, you can create an altar, because an altar is simply paying homage to someone's life and celebrating what they did.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Atheist
  • Celebrate
  • Homage

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Character

• So telling a lie becomes a sin if you tell it to take advantage of a person, but if you tell a lie to do a good thing for him that is not a sin. Even God tells lies very often; you can see this throughout history.

  

  Sun Myung Moon
  • Persons
  • Lying
  • Sin

• 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 Starship
  • Interested
  • Don't Know
  • Agnostic

• Science is agnostic when it comes to god; not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly; just agnostic.

  

  Eric Chaisson
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Now I'm a Catholic agnostic by the way. Yet those myths still live within me.

  

  Andre Alexis
  • Catholic
  • Myths
  • Agnostic

• Don't be agnostic - be something.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Agnostic

• Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Agnostic
  • Humanist

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