Quotes About Agnosticism

You could have ten scientists in this room. You could ask them all: 'Who's religious?' About three to four will put their hands up.

The appropriate attitude to mystical experiences for those who haven't had them is probably one of agnosticism, the withholding of belief either that mystical experiences provide genuine insight into the nature of reality or that they are delusions.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.' [ Interview, The New Yorker, Dec. 26, 2005 ]

The answer is that if God exists, he doesn't seem to mind if you believe in him or not.

We all have our beliefs or our agnosticism.

For a while, I called myself an agnostic, which was me wanting to maintain a connection to the culture I was raised in while also undercutting a lot of the beliefs I had.

Believing that there is no God does not mean that there isn't one.

If god exists, he is not to be believed in.

I used to be an atheist, which means I didn't believe in things that couldn't be observed. I believed that once you're dead, you're dead forever, and you don't feel anything, and you don't even dream. It's not that I believe in things that can't be observed now, because I don't. It's that I believe that things are extremely complicated.

She was unhappy, although unconvinced that her unhappiness wouldn't be someone else's happiness. She felt unfulfilled desire—profound amounts of it—but presumably so did every other married and unmarried person. She wanted more, but didn't know if there was more to be found. Not knowing used to feel inspiring. It felt like faith. Now it felt agnostic. Like not knowing.

Being an agnostic means all things are possible, even God, even the Holy Trinity. This world is so strange that anything may happen, or may not happen. Being an agnostic makes me live in a larger, a more fantastic kind of world, almost uncanny. It makes me more tolerant.

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief—call it what you will—than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

You may be GOD,...............but I am an ATHIEST !

My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

Bu sav ÅŸuna benzer bir ÅŸeydir: 'Ben var olduÄŸumu kan?tlamay? reddediyorum,' der Tanr?, 'çünkü kan?t inanc? yads?r ve inanç olmadan ben bir hiçim.

Well, we can't say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

There was once a philosopher who said, 'I don't believe in God, but I fear him greatly.' That's about where I am.

I was born a Catholic and now I'm a lapsed Catholic. I'm something but I'm not a believer any more.

I'm not an atheist, but I'm not a Christian, either.

I'm not a Christian.

I'm completely lacking any sense of religious belief, but I am superstitious.