Quotes About Agnosticism

I am not absolutely positive there is no god. Only in the sense that I'm not absolutely positive there is no large china teapot in orbit in the solar system.

[I'm] almost positive there is no God.

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.

Life showed itself to me in different colors after I had once read Turgenev; it became more serious, more awful, and with mystical responsibilities I had not known before. My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast melancholy of the Slav, patient, agnostic, trustful.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?" "I give." "You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.

The problem is that one man's superstition is another man's religion, and vice versa. Many Protestants today still see Catholicism as being rife with superstition, ... while atheists and agnostics would see bien-pensant Protestants as worshiping an equally absurd form of the supernatural.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

I don't believe in God. I believe something is happening, I'm not sure what it is.

I have no time to waste on this planet being told what to do by those who think that God has given them instructions.

Thank God, I am still an atheist.

Often times when I meet atheists and we talk about the god they don't believe in, we quickly discover that I don't believe in that god, either.

I do not have enough faith to believe there is no god.

If God is incomprehensible to man, it would seem rational never to think of Him at all.

Do I believe? God only knows.

I do not deny "God", because that word conveys to me no idea, and I cannot deny that which presents to me no distinct affirmation, and of which the would-be affirmer has no conception.

Seems as unfounded ... to say there isn't a God as to say there is.

My goal is to try to get people into a state of generalized agnosticism, not agnosticism about God alone, but agnosticism about everything.

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

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

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

It is only thanks to God that I'm an atheist

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I don't follow any one religion.

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