Quotes About Agnosticism

Even if there is intelligent life somewhere, which perhaps there is, I'm agnostic about it, I don't know.

I'm not a religious person, though I dabbled for a while.

Unbelief was easier than belief, much less demanding and subtly flattering because the agnostic felt himself to be intellectually superior to the believer. And then unbelief haunted by faith, as she knew by experience, produced a rather pleasant nostalgia, while belief haunted by doubt involved real suffering.

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

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.

I went with agnosticism for a long, long time because I just hated to say I was an atheist - being an atheist seemed so rigid. But the more I became comfortable with the word, and the more I read, it started to stick.

I try to steer away from high metaphysical belief because I think we humans do best when we realize that we don't know all that much.

I am simply an agnostic. I haven't yet had time or opportunity to explore the universe, and I don't know what I might run on to in some nook or corner.

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.

I am in a state of categorical unbelief. I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean. (Jack Boughton)

Ser agnóstico facilita hacerse a la idea de morir: la perspectiva de la nada es grata, sobre todo en momentos de contrariedad o desánimo.

The question from agnosticism is, 'who turned on the lights?' The question from faith is 'whatever for?' Thoreau climbed Mount Katahdin and gives vent to an almost outraged sense of the reality of the things of this world: "I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. What is this Titan that has possession of me? Talk of mysteries- think of our life in nature-daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it,- rocks, trees, wind!

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

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

I do not believe in an afterlife although I am bringing a change of underwear.

The source of knowledge must be rational. If this be granted, you rule out Mechanism, you rule out Naturalism, you rule out Agnosticism; and a lofty form of Theism becomes, as I think, inevitable.

Maybe it was because I'd effectively functioned as an agnostic for a few years already, but it never occurred to me that life without God might have no meaning. On the contrary, among my first thoughts after my deconversion was this: Holy mackerel! Evangelizing people to love, justice, and community is going to be a whole lot easier now that I don't have to convince them to buy a whole set of unbelievable Iron Age myths at the same time!

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.

Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe.

I don't know what happens to you after you die. I'm not banking on there being, like, a heaven.

I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'.

I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while. We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt, so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from the Cross, 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' then surely we are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.

This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty.