Agnostic Quotes

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

Beginning, Content, Mystery

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.
Bob Dylan

Power, Real, Thought

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

Faith, Thoughts, House

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?
Richard Dawkins

Respect, May, Garden

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means.
Clarence Darrow

Men, Insult, Rather

Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?
Stephen Colbert

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
Clarence Darrow

Men, Sure, Ignorant

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
E. M. Forster

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

Thought, Took, Title

You happen to be talking to an agnostic. You know what an agnostic is? A cowardly atheist.
Studs Terkel

Happen, Talking, Atheist

In America, now, let us - Christian, Jew, Muslim, agnostic, atheist, wiccan, whatever - fight nativism with the same strength and conviction that we fight terrorism. My faith calls on its followers to love one's enemies. A tall order, that - perhaps the tallest of all.
Jon Meacham

Love, Faith, Strength

I will never come around to the idea of an anthropomorphic God. I'm also uncomfortable with the word 'God'... I'm agnostic about the answer and I'm agnostic about the question.
Jonathan Safran Foer

God, Around, Idea

Even when I was saying I was Agnostic and trying to figure out my thoughts, I felt God was allowing me to do that.
Alfre Woodard

God, Saying, Trying

The law is agnostic about truth.
Alan Dershowitz

I have to recognize that I am agnostic.
Antonio Banderas

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism; and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.
Hu Shih

Religion, Great, Simple

My father was an agnostic.
Jerry Falwell

I deeply believe in pluralism. I believe in the close proximity of multiple systems or agnostic systems.
Ben Nicholson

Close, Deeply, Systems

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.
Hu Shih

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
Terry Eagleton

Faith, Politics, Matter

I'm now an agnostic but I grew up on the King James version, which I'm eternally grateful for.
Penelope Lively

Grateful, King, Eternally

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

Woman, Together, Old

My mother was very agnostic. She would never set foot in the synagogue, she couldn't be doing with it.
Janet Suzman

Mother, She, Foot

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

Atheist, Graduated

The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.
Whitley Strieber

Christmas, Dad, Mother

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