Quotes About Agnostic

An agnostic Buddhist would not regard the Dharma as a source of answers to questions of where we came from, where we are going, what happens after death. He would seek such knowledge in the appropriate domains: astrophysics, evolutionary biology, neuroscience, etc.

Essentially I'm a pantheist-agnostic. I worship many deities with equal amounts of confusion.

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

Regardless of your belief, regardless of your religious affiliation, I don't care if you're an atheist, an agnostic, I don't care. We could all use good news.

To be quite honest, I'm not religious.

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

Some people probably think me telling Godard's story is blasphemy. My friends were worried. But he's not my hero or my god. Godard is like the leader of a sect, and I'm an agnostic.

I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic . . . all possible sins together.

It is the human condition to ask questions like Anne's last night and to receive no plain answers, he said. Perhaps this is because we can't understand the answers, because we are incapable of knowing God's ways and God's thoughts. We are, after all, only very clever tailless primates, doing the best we can, but limited. Perhaps we must all own up to being agnostic, unable to know the unknowable.

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?

I gave up religious thinking a long time ago and am really just an agnostic now.

Honestly, I'm, like, the least religious person in the world.

I'm not a very religious person.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Religion is at the core of a lot of Lovecraft's writing. Many of his stories focus around deities, sometimes taking on the role of aliens who are worshipped by humans as deities, who are either indifferent or actively hostile to humans. This is all particularly interesting as Lovecraft marked himself as either atheist or agnostic during his life.

'Proof' is a really cool pilot that I was lucky enough to read by Rob Braggin for TNT that's about a surgeon who's an agnostic, tough, grounded, scientific mind and she's hired by a Steve Jobs-type who's just been diagnosed with cancer to focus on near death experiences and what happens when you die.

As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

The religion of love is no less attractive to the diehard atheist than to the agnostic or the believer. Many atheists find in love a taste of the absolute and the eternal that they rigorously deny to any other realm of life.

In religion and politics, on the contrary, though there is as yet nothing approaching scientific knowledge, everybody considers it de rigueur to have a dogmatic opinion, to be backed up by inflicting starvation, prison, and war, and to be carefully guarded from argumentative competition with any different opinion. If only men could be brought into a tentatively agnostic frame of mind about these matters, nine-tenths of the evils of the modern world would be cured.

I'm an agnostic trending toward atheist and resist, in particular, Christian interpretations and imagery.

What I'm talking about here, by the way, is salvation. The latin root, salve, means 'health.' The Teutonic cognates 'health' and 'holy' share the same root. Being agnostic about the afterlife, I look for salvation here - not to be saved from life, but to be saved by life, in life, for life.

The law is agnostic about truth.

Unbelief, in distinction from disbelief, is a confession of ignorance where honest inquiry might easily find the truth. - "Agnostic" is but the Greek for "ignoramus."

I asked him if he agreed with something I'd read the Dalai Lama had said, that the idea that brains create consciousness—an idea accepted without question by most scientists—"is a metaphysical assumption, not a scientific fact." "Bingo," Jesse said. "And for someone with my orientation"—agnostic, enamored of science—"that changes everything.