Quotes About Agnosticism

I forbid you, agnostic, doubting thoughts, to destroy the house of my faith.

I like to say I don't believe in mystics . I don't believe in fate. I don't believe in destiny or kismet. I don't believe in God. I don't believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything .

There's no reason to be agnostic about ideas that are dramatically incompatible with everything we know about modern science.

There's a lot of pride involved in my refusal to believe in god.

saying you don't know or care about God is the same as saying you believe he doesn't exist, because if you had even a hope that he existed, you would care very much.

As Diderot once quipped, a deist is someone who has not lived long enough to become an atheist.

I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know exactly where that leads are talking through their hats.

I am an atheist.

I actually pray everyday, but I don't believe in God.

No one accused Frederick James Furnivall of averageness, and his career highlights the ups and downs of editorial scholarship. As eccentric as he was energetic, a Christian socialist turned agnostic, Furnivall gained a reputation for hot pink neckties, sculling on the Thames with shopgirls, and hours toiling over manuscripts in the British Museum.

Do you believe in God?" I asked Lula. "Fuckin' A I believe in God. Don't you believe in God?" "I believe in something. It's vague.

America cannot remain half-Christian and half-agnostic." Thereafter, the Klan lobbied for teaching the biblical story of seven days of creation in public school science classes

Do you believe in God?' Julie asked. 'No. But I'm old enough to recognize that we simply have no idea what lies beyond the boundaries of our knowledge and to take some comfort from that ignorance.

The fact that I didn't believe in God was something that I just didn't consider. And then when I did, it was like, 'Oh yeah, I'm out.'

I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.

This not-knowing is a game of irresponsibility. It is a way of saying I'm not responsible. I'm an agnostic.

A reverent agnosticism can be on occasion a better evangelism than a religion which knows all the answers.

Between twenty and thirty I gradually became more and more agnostic and irreligious, yet I cannot say that I ever lost that 'indefinite consciousness' which Herbert Spencer describes so well, of an Absolute Reality behind phenomena.

He believes in No-God, and he worships him

I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfully agree to keep my willing nature out of the game. I cannot do so for this plain reason, that a rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those kinds of truth were really there, would be an irrational rule.

He knows religion is bollocks," Collingswood said. "He just wishes he didn't.

Like all ardent agnostics, Martin was a religious man.

Agnosticism has nothing to impart. Its sermons are the exhortations of one who convinces you he stands on nothing and urges you to stand there too.

I'm agnostic because I went through the usual process of parents insisting you go to church, and yet they didn't. So there's me, sitting in the chairs, thinking, 'Jeez, why am I here? I'd rather be playing tennis, seriously.'