Quotes About Agnosticism

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

I'm not sure about life after this; god knows I'm not a spiritual man.

Agnosticism is the natural attitude of the evolutionist. How can a brute mind comprehend spiritual things?

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

If there was a God, the world seemed exactly the way it would be if there wasn't one.

I was never encouraged to believe anything. I was brought up in a profoundly agnostic or pantheistic community.

Practically all the prominent leaders of thought in China today are openly agnostics and even atheists.

I don't believe in one God, and I would be the last person to say there is one because there is no real proof there is a God, and there has been no one person to prove to the world there is a God.

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you can't prove that there aren't any, so shouldn't we be agnostic with respect to fairies?

It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.

You go back to T. H. Huxley, who coined the term, what he said - and I came to believe he is right - is that agnosticism asserts not only that he himself didn't know if there was a God or not, but that nobody could know.

He had remained steadfast in agnosticism and therefore, as Mabel took comfort in remarking, 'he never denied God.' Neither did he affirm God.

Not reading, it might be said, was the highest expression of atheism, or at least of atheism as he conceived of it. If you don't believe in God, how do you believe in a fucking book?

coping with uncertainty makes us more creative, more resilient, and leads to genuine intellectual progress. It also makes us more tolerant, and this is the key to understanding what effect agnosticism should have on religious education.

Paul Tillich, for example, maintained that, 'It is as atheistic to affirm the existence of God as it is to deny it.'4

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

It is hard for a person of no faith like myself to comprehend the moment when faith dies in the human heart. The kneeling believer who suddenly understands that there is no reason to pray because nobody's listening.

It was curious that so avowedly godless a person should keep trying to write about faith.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

IRRELIGION, n. The principal one of the great faiths of the world.

Because there is no God. Your prayers are whispers to an empty room.

The Buddha takes no position on gods, he suggests they may exist or they may not, but either way you can live a moral life.

and laughed at his theories, and proved that no man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.

If there is a God, his plan is very similar to someone not having a plan.